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terje439 -> RE: Disaster in the making. Oloren (axis) vs Terje (USSR) (11/29/2011 12:36:51 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball
1) Should you be forming more Tank Bdes and Rifle units?
1a) IMO, you get more Tank Bdes than you can realistically support, so you can afford to lose some in 1942 without replacing them. IIRC, you get around 100-ish or so, and I think more than 24 Tank Corps is tough to support logistically, at least until mid-43 or later. That's the equivalent of 75 Tank Bdes.
1b) With Rifle units, I think you get around 450 division equivalents. You probably need 8 mil men to round all those out completely, so you can get away with less. I personally wouldn't build any, unless you are close to 100% TOE on every Rifle unit on the map, and you have excess Manpower/Armaments building in the pool.
1c) How many Rifle Div equivalents do you have at the moment? (Count Corps as 3, and Brigades as 1/2)
2) Instead of creating new units, you need to be hoarding APs, so that when January '43 hits, you can start converting Rifle Div to Corps wholesale (it costs 20 APs in 1942, but only 10 in 43+, providing a large incentive to hold-off alot of Corps conversion until 1943). For my part, I want to have near the MAX in APs in Jan '43, and immediately create 40 Rifle Corps.
3) If you are forming any new mobile units, look at Motorized Brigades, and form them into MECH CORPS. Mech Corps unfortunately start at an experience level of 15 after formation, so they take many months to train-up. I would build a few early, giving them time to train, and build into something worthwhile. That is a better use of extra vehicles, IMO, than more Tank Bdes.
MECH CORPS are the #1 Red Army unit once they train, but you have to plan ahead to get them there. Once trained, they are the equivalent of a Panzer Division.
1) I think I need a few more?
1a) I currently have 14 tank corps and 30 tank brigades which then just hits the number of 24 corps
1b) I have spare armaments, but you have a good point about manpower
1c) I am at 385 Rifle division equivalents, + 10 mountain division = 395, or somewhat lower than your number
2) But that again seems to me to be a way to halter me from making attacks in winter. Not attacks at all, but in the way that my CV values will be lower, and my ability to push will be limited? But the point about AP is well taken.
Also, unless I am way off, TOE of 2 divisions + 1 brigade > TOE of a corps, while CV of a corps > CV of two divisions and a brigade. This too suggests that forming corps is a good thing?
3) Thank you, that is useful info. Will take that into account, yet it seems to me that right now my major concern should be having assault troops for the winter?
Again, thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it [&o]
Terje
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