German Garrison

[LiquidSky]

From questions I got from my opponent in my recent Campaign game it seems there might be some confusion about how to increase the garrison's in France et. al.

What I do is put the entire German army on refit. This allows the morale of some of the worst divisions to increase slowly up to 70, which is the German National Morale.

It also allows the understrength German units to build up to full strength.

But in order for that to occur, you will have to make sure that your divisions are on supply priority 4, and in command range of corp HQ's (etc.) Replacements are freight, and follow the supply procedures.

Lastly I attach all the support units that aren't flak to units on garrison duty. This frees up even more divisions.

The purpose of all this is to be able to maximize the number of units I send to defend Italy.


I tend to send mostly infantry down to Italy, and leave the sexier heavy divisions (like the FJ units) on garrison. I'd rather have 3-4 infantry divisions then a single FJ division. But it is good to have some armour as well.

[Q-Ball]

Good items, what do you do with the Static units? You can't put them on REFIT.

Do you combine REGTS into Divisions? Sometimes that helps the AV, sometimes it hurts.....with the '43 TOE, you probably need to leave that alone for a bit, otherwise they will re-size when you combine them. That's great for putting men in the pool, and probably worthwhile in the long run, but in the short-turn it does impact the garrison numbers....

[LiquidSky]

I always recombine them. And move them away from England if I can since distance from enemy plays a part in refit.

I don't worry about the units being static..being static seems to be like being in refit since when I look at them, they are gaining the morale and the troops are gaining exp. Maybe not as fast as the ones on refit, but still.

I do motorize the weakest divisions and move them down to Italy....weak divisions defend rough terrain quite nicely. And they can refit until the enemy approaches. And I would rather have lots of weak divisions then a few strong ones. Although you still need some strength to counterattack.