This will help reduce the military force of the enemy, while creating a good starting war score. Defensive war can provide terrain bonuses, fort bonuses, and units suffer far less attrition. When enemy forces are effectively reduced to a manageable size, invasion of the enemy's home territories becomes possible.
Unit Composition: As a general rule, a mixed army will produce the most successful results. Specifically, armies should have an even mix of infantry and artillery. This is necessary because artillery and later airplanes are the only units that can occupy the second line of frontage and still engage in combat. Thus, infantry in the second line serve no purpose in combat until they get into the first line.
Some players suggest adding slightly more infantry than artillery with the idea that infantry will die off and artillery in the front lines will be decimated. Since calvary can attack diagonally, they are most useful in pairs for any army: one regiment for each flank. Size: The size of an army obviously depends on soldiers POPs, but a wise player will build armies that consider three other key factors:.
Attrition warfare is an important component of strategic game play on a number of levels. For reinforcements, it is better to fill the combat width and have all reserve troops in a safe territory outside of combat. This allows reserve units to reinforce and gain strength, which is ideal since they are not able to help combat anyway.
When the main army begins to loose org and frontage spaces open, the reserves can be sent in. The size of various armies, and their unit composition, cannot be considered in a wholly hermetic and isolated context. The player must form their armies, mobilize them, and deploy them in response to highly faction-specific demands and pressures.
For these purposes, there are three possible ways to integrate mobilization into a player's overall land combat strategy, namely: the formation of a wholly professional army with no dependence on mobilized pops, the formation of a wholly mobilized army with total dependence on mobilized pops, and the formation of armies with professional and mobilized elements. Wholly professional armies do not depend on mobilized pops for their force composition. In this model, all three parts of an army - the infantry, the cavalry, and the artillery - are recruited exclusively from Soldier pops.
Originally posted by sausages :. To build small arms factory you need to research a tech first if I remember correctly, even after you research the tech, you need to wait for "small arms factory" to be invented. Further, to increase the amount that is available for you to buy, you need to have high Prestige; the higher the Prestige, the higher you can be prioritized to buy any goods first.
Nevermind I found the problem. Strategyking View Profile View Posts. Originally posted by Rich Man Stalin :. The tech is called mechanized mining, and i's not hard to research; the only hold up is the invention event. Originally posted by Strategyking :. If your playing an unknown. NO one is going to sell you the tanks and planes you want. As for the soldier question i believe you need pop for a man brigade any less and you can sustain an understrength unit but not create a new one.
Also the wages for soldier and officers greatly affect soldier numbers as much as national focus. If your men are starving and better off as a farmer they will just desert and become farmers.
However you can always justcall up reserves. Last edited by leroy ; 2 May, am. You have to keep in mind how big your population is in comparison to your army. More soldiers means less labourers, and vice versa. Emperor Marcus Lt. General 83 Badges. Jun 15, 1. Felicity said:. Click to expand Is this what you mean or am I missing somthing. InvisibleSandwi Customization Advocate 81 Badges. Aug 20, 85 invisiblesandwichtm.
Each 'population' of soldiers needs to be large enough to support a brigade. IIRC, the formula is for the first, and then more per brigade supportable. You may want to use some national focuses to encourage soldiers, or you could increase the funding your soldier POPs get through your budget window. What this game needs is a way to consolidate soldiers into larger groups - in the USA, perhaps clumping all the soldiers in a state into one province of the state?
I'm not sure. Either way, a lot of nations have trouble raising armies at the beginning of the game. JonYoung said:. Jan 27, Don't expect your army to be bigger than average second power's for quite a few years. Comrade Chaos Husky 55 Badges. Dec 17, 1.
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