THIS SHOULDN'T WORK! Historical German Infantry Template

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Germany 1945 division: 10 old grandpas, 3 Hitler Youth and a bunch of crude boomsticks made in a shed

Aldrahill has a whole series on historical templates. Would love to see that collab!

Should have asked aldarahill for the templates so he could have felt like he is not the only one who is insane

I have decent playtime in HOI4,but I believe everytime I watch a feedback video, I discover buttons in this game which I never thought existed

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Fun fact, in 1944 most of german divisions (inf and panzer) were downsized due to lack of manpower and also because on the paper you could "field" more divisions

Aldrahill, best hoi 4 fella ever has historical divs covered.

This is actually the infantry design I use.... I didn't even know it. Usually I roll out with a 36 width infantry division with 4 arty, 1 AT and 1 AA. I never use arty AA or AT as a support unit. I fill my support with anything that adds a buff to my infantry followed with a signal company.

You should host a multiplayer game and force other hoi youtubers to do historical templates

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There is another youtuber who did all the research for the historical divisions and I wish Paradox would add some button or option to only use historical divisions, kinda like a design template but for divisions.

German Divisional Artillery was pretty much formed into a single 'Regiment'. In 1939 you had three Battalions of light Howitzers, each consisting of 12 105mm Howitzers in batteries of 4 guns, and a single battery of 150mm Howitzers, again 12 guns in 4 gun batteries. Generally each of the light howitzer Battalions would support one of the Infantry Regiments. The heavies would be retained under direct Divisional control for fire where required. Manpower is around 500 men per Battalion, around 200 on the guns, the rest would be support (takes a lot of dudes to shift all that arty ammo around). Early war the Artillery would have been mostly motorised, but by 1943 the infantry artillery battalions had their motorised transport removed except Heavy Battalion. So early war you could get away with motorised Artillery, but mid to late its horse drawn for most of it. By 1944 many infantry units, especially the Volk units had lost one of the light howitzer battalions replaced with a Field Gun Battalion consisting 16 75mm field guns (often captures Soviet or French guns). The recon element would be a single Battalion of armoured cars or motorcycle troops, usually a mix of both. Infantry, Each German infantry regiment consisted of 3 Battalions each of around 1000 men. A division typically consisted of three regiments. So around 9000 men at full strength. Early German Infantry Divisions did not have organic AT or AA guns, though each Infantry Regiment did have an organic complement of 36mm AT guns, Can't remember the number though, was not many, maybe 2 or 3 4 gun batteries. Late war Divisions had an AT and AA Battalion as part of their organic TOE. THIS is why I do not make historical Divisions!!! HoI IV simply does not allow you to do so. EDIT: as a side note, each of the batteries in the Howitzer Battalions would generally support a specific Infantry Battalion unless the situation demanded otherwise.

OH NO AI. My day is ruined!

I love your content. Keep going on!

Feedback, you have to remember a lot of troops in the infantry division are in support roles. Each German Infantry division in 1939,had an artillery regiment of 36 field guns plus 12 heavy guns, in total 48 artillery pieces, your division had almost 3 times as many guns, so no wonder you were successful! It would be interesting if you would have been successful if you scaled down the artillery to the historical level?

Have a good rest of your day Dave

I found mods to make divisions bigger, which adds more support companies as well, which would be perfect for this challenge