In previous patches, before the SF force limit, Mountain was regularly spammed in place of regular Infantry, since it functioned similar to Inf, but was stronger. If I can have enough SF battalions, I like to add one or two of them, sometimes three, in my colonial brigades.Īnyway, if your allowed mass of SF is to low for your division number needs, do not hesitate to replace a few battalions in the template with Infantry ones, you trade some terrain bonuses for a better ability to cover the front.Īs others have said, Mountain isn't worth the bother currently. They're especially useful for Ger to fight in Norway and the Balkans. They're great at defending mountain tiles (10 or 20 width withe at least ENG), I try not to attack in mountains if I can avoid it.

Mountaineers are great when playing Germany, Italy or France, I find them less useful as Soviet Union. Italy is a hard terrain but naval,air and material superiority should be enough to achieve breakthroughs in the enemy line The mountain division is useful in Italy, but the US does not really need more than one. If possible, I renforce them with artillery and tanks after they jumped and got supplied so they have sufficient fighting power to play their role on the field. You can go with historical templates (3x3 Marine battalions plus artillery and tanks) or use a 40 width template.įor paratroopers, the game makes it difficult to use them the historical way. However, I use a few marine battalions among my Infantry divisions to represent the Rangers battalions that fought in Europe.

Historical OOBs are not always doable in game, especially if you account for all the individual battalions attached to divisions.Ħ marine divisions are more than enough for the Pacific campaign, they'd do great for Torch, Husky and Overlord but did not fight in those operations. I played quite a few historical US games where I try to stick to the historical 97 divisions (67 infantry, 1 mountain, 6 marines, 5 airborne, 2 cavalry, 16 armored, plus a few garrison forces).

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