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Ian R -> RE: Upgrade lcu (9/3/2019 9:26:15 PM)
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And think very carefully about whether to give the 42nd, 43rd, and 44th Indian cavalry regiments their final TOE upgrade.
These useful light tank battalions shed their Stuart Is and turn into tank transporter regiments - basically a block of motorised support that well help keep the medium tank brigades (and anything else) in good condition, but lose combat capability.
There is also an Indian division (originally the Burma division, but it changes designation to 39th) that devolves into a brigade size training division- basically a large garrison unit. Best avoided, as the Indians are the only CW army whose manpower position improves over time.
There are actually quite a few Indian/Brit division and brigade TOE upgrades I don't do. Generally because by the time some of the lightened jungle/air portable upgrades come along, you are pushing back through Malaya and Indo-China on a road net and the beefier 'motorised' type TOE is more useful*. There are a couple of divisions that evolve into motorised infantry eventually after starting light (possibly the 17th and 14th?) but to get past that, parked somewhere appropriate like Singapore or Saigon on rest, they will progress through any available upgrades at 1 per day. In the meantime, there are plenty of light brigades you can air transport around - the Chindits, Lushai brigade, etc.
(* This does however cause a shortage of 25lbr guns, which decrease from 72 to 48 with the light TOE. So you need to manipulate stockpiles and device upgrades throughout all CW forces to keep the 18lbrs in use. It also exacerbates the shortage of British squads, because the Indian divisions' TOE upgrades often replace the UK infantry battalions and combat engineers with Indian squads. You can't have your cake and eat it.)
The only US unit TOE upgrades I defer are the USMC defence battalions; at some point, though, you can selectively determine which ones can turn in their USMC squads to the pool.
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