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They are set to 30 until the USA is in the war. Then it's 10.

Better. But still, would Italy surrender if she held all her possessions like North Africa and Sicily but happened to loose 10 in one city in some raid? I think not.

About Italy, would it be possible to add to them divisions as starting force but not something they can produce of their own volition? Or like a limited amount of them?
At least divisions could cover ports and Rhodes with full entrench value.
And some starting infantry could have higher experience (whereas Rome's for instance starts awfully weak in both experience and all!)

Rhodes had a tiny garrison. I think less than a regiment.

You can simple add a small corps. lower it's health. Then set it to not reinforce representing the meager forces there. Then when you want build it up via repair.

That is what I did for the coastal units for Italy. I forgot if it is in this current patch or the one I am working on.

Italy really could use a cheap small unit to build and is weirdly lacking this. The basic infantry corps is small, true, and yet too large for this job and twice as expensive as the divisions most other powers can rely on for this job.

It's especially rough given the small Italian economy.

I get that the Italian division were undersized compared to others, but even so. You could make them 6 or 7 point units.

Tbh with the current Experience Italian troops start with, divisions that are not pratically 'garrison' are experience for the enemy.
And an Italian division is more than adequate to fight any partisan.

No need to make it 10 strong. (Don't feel either Italy can spam divisions as speed bumps either due to economical constraints).

The 'how weak' they are is bundled in the mix of weak economy and low Experience (pratically an Italian corp is on part with a Romanian one or Bulgarian!)

Since the cost is also the same (if 120 PPs are poured in a unit, that unit receives the same amount of guns and rifles and ammos - just have a variety of training, guns and rifles are better or lower quality, officer training, etc, that's how I see experience bundled).

In the new patch I believe I added small corps with this function to them map. Italians shouldn't have to buy them.