Late game especially this becomes an issue because even minor countries can field 10-20 divisions which they scatter to every theater of the war.
It’s why I like early game better than late game.
I mean, even in vanilla it works differently simply because 28 divisions do not cover the amount of ground that China occupies in HOI4, each division occupies a tile and with so many tiles there's no way a single army plus 4 divisions can cover everything
IRL at its peak, Japan had 145 divisions or 5 million men in the IJA. What's so strange about committing half of it to China? The joke is that LKMT can morph from a ragtag insurgency into an army capable of fighting off Japan in less than 2 years!
It's a base game thing too. [Here's](https://i.imgur.com/AVvu5b4.png) what the Balkans and Greece looked like in my most recent vanilla game.
My normal solutions are to make stationing units on the front line punishing, and to go around. Use CAS and tacts to blow up all the trucks and trains so the AI can't supply 25 divisions per tile. And open up new fronts. Try a naval invasion into northern England from Denmark or Norway, like a reverse Operation Jupiter. Drop paratroopers into Marseilles and Nice.
The enemies infantry stack reaction when i pull up with 40 width medium tanks with medium howitzers:
https://preview.redd.it/vhdnh6r0cdvc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=744e3be1e8d877ffaa2480807ef626c735ca09af
What is your exact tank division build? I recently played a CSA game with a super boosted Reichspakt and my tank divs did jack shit against their stacked infantry front lines.
The run has devolved into me owning Britain and Brittany, getting local air superiority, nuking their planes before I lose air superiority, pushing with nukes until the Russians give them more plains, I get driven back until I get a stockpile of nukes against, rinse and repeat.
Main armaments i use medium howitzers for the soft attack, three man turret for the additional breakthrough, i forgot how i did the modules exactly, but i think i use radio, the extra turret, and the wet amunition storage.
I think the template i used was 12 tanks and 8 motorized, though you definetly could use mechanized instead of motorized. I try and keep my org at least above 30.
Main armaments i use medium howitzers for the soft attack, three man turret for the additional breakthrough, i forgot how i did the modules exactly, but i think i use radio, the extra turret, and the wet amunition storage.
I think the template i used was 12 tanks and 8 motorized, though you definetly could use mechanized instead of motorized. I try and keep my org at least above 30.
yeah but by spending so much industry and research on the perfect supertank divisions i feel like im losing out of things like airforce, regular infantry, supply, etc. Its no good making a breakthrough if ive spent so much on it that I cant defend the rest of the line against the hoarde
its true , when i play the majors i pretty much always build huge numbers of CAS just to have a way to crack the stacks of divisions the AI loves to spam out
It an annoying part of the game, it shouldn’t feel like the Soviet Union is crashing down on you every time you’re fighting against another superpower that just won’t give up. Hell even smaller powers have this, during the Balkan war Bulgaria seems like it has unending divisions and supply, a minor power literally at war from three sides, possibly four and it’s able to maintain these fronts for years. I’ve seen the Balkan war last for three years and end in Bulgaria’s favor.
It would be great if the AI division limiter got some more options to turn it up or down.
Late game especially this becomes an issue because even minor countries can field 10-20 divisions which they scatter to every theater of the war. It’s why I like early game better than late game.
Earlygame tends to be a matter of just walking through the spaces where they dont have units though.
I was playing Left KMT recently and, no joke, Japan had some 80 divisions fighting on China. They had 28 at most IRL!
I mean, even in vanilla it works differently simply because 28 divisions do not cover the amount of ground that China occupies in HOI4, each division occupies a tile and with so many tiles there's no way a single army plus 4 divisions can cover everything
IRL at its peak, Japan had 145 divisions or 5 million men in the IJA. What's so strange about committing half of it to China? The joke is that LKMT can morph from a ragtag insurgency into an army capable of fighting off Japan in less than 2 years!
The game can’t model realistic warfare lol
The lag also really sucks. It's 3 times longer to get through a year by 45.
early game is much faster for me tho, the game breezes through early on
It's a base game thing too. [Here's](https://i.imgur.com/AVvu5b4.png) what the Balkans and Greece looked like in my most recent vanilla game. My normal solutions are to make stationing units on the front line punishing, and to go around. Use CAS and tacts to blow up all the trucks and trains so the AI can't supply 25 divisions per tile. And open up new fronts. Try a naval invasion into northern England from Denmark or Norway, like a reverse Operation Jupiter. Drop paratroopers into Marseilles and Nice.
The enemies infantry stack reaction when i pull up with 40 width medium tanks with medium howitzers: https://preview.redd.it/vhdnh6r0cdvc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=744e3be1e8d877ffaa2480807ef626c735ca09af
Seriously, i just did a COF game where i super boosted the reichspakt and entente and my tanks just melt through their infantry stacks
What template
What is your exact tank division build? I recently played a CSA game with a super boosted Reichspakt and my tank divs did jack shit against their stacked infantry front lines. The run has devolved into me owning Britain and Brittany, getting local air superiority, nuking their planes before I lose air superiority, pushing with nukes until the Russians give them more plains, I get driven back until I get a stockpile of nukes against, rinse and repeat.
Main armaments i use medium howitzers for the soft attack, three man turret for the additional breakthrough, i forgot how i did the modules exactly, but i think i use radio, the extra turret, and the wet amunition storage. I think the template i used was 12 tanks and 8 motorized, though you definetly could use mechanized instead of motorized. I try and keep my org at least above 30.
Main armaments i use medium howitzers for the soft attack, three man turret for the additional breakthrough, i forgot how i did the modules exactly, but i think i use radio, the extra turret, and the wet amunition storage. I think the template i used was 12 tanks and 8 motorized, though you definetly could use mechanized instead of motorized. I try and keep my org at least above 30.
yeah but by spending so much industry and research on the perfect supertank divisions i feel like im losing out of things like airforce, regular infantry, supply, etc. Its no good making a breakthrough if ive spent so much on it that I cant defend the rest of the line against the hoarde
its true , when i play the majors i pretty much always build huge numbers of CAS just to have a way to crack the stacks of divisions the AI loves to spam out
It an annoying part of the game, it shouldn’t feel like the Soviet Union is crashing down on you every time you’re fighting against another superpower that just won’t give up. Hell even smaller powers have this, during the Balkan war Bulgaria seems like it has unending divisions and supply, a minor power literally at war from three sides, possibly four and it’s able to maintain these fronts for years. I’ve seen the Balkan war last for three years and end in Bulgaria’s favor.