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ColinWright -> RE: Edition of sub-units (1/15/2009 4:41:21 AM)
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The two problems I see are first, that the 10% addition/subtraction in proficiency will still occur, and second, that while you can reassemble your unit from its differentiated components, you can't take it apart again except to get undifferentiated sub-units.
However, what you mention might be of some use -- for example, one could simulate later motorization of initially foot-bound infantry units. Of course, the units would also jump in proficiency when they got their trucks. One use I can see immediately is for a 'Barbarossa' scenario. Many Soviet artillery units literally had no transportation on 22 June. If only the cannon unit was in play at the start, one would get a much more accurate simulation of the Red Army's problems than the usual. There are lots of guns -- they just won't get their transportation component for a while.
Really though, what is needed is something more like your original 'composite units' idea. The more military history I read, the more I think this is needed, since in fact armies fight at least as often with composite forces of various arms as they do with nicely differentiated units from the parade ground. At least as often as one has the artillery regiment there, and the infantry regiments here, and the reconnaissance battalion there, one has the three infantry regiments heading off, each supported by a battery of artillery and led by a squadron of scout cars.
However, pending a full implementation of your idea, there might be a fairly easily obtained way-point. Specifically, an option to disable the proficiency increase/decrease and some record of the sub-division originally specified in the original order of battle. That would accomplish some of what is needed. Units would break up and reassemble as they do now -- unless some other division had been specified in the original OOB.
For example, in a North Africa scenario, the British usually fought in Brigade Groups: tanks or infantry with attached artillery, engineers, etc. Under those circumstances, one might generally be happy with the AT guns and such sticking with the infantry/tanks -- but one would frequently want to concentrate one's artillery. So one could have an infantry brigade group appear as two sub-units: the infantry et al, and the artillery and some trucks. Reassemble them to give the unit maximum power as an individual unit. Specify you want to break it back down to two units and you get back the artillery and some trucks in one unit and everything else in the other.
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