Russian Guards divisions

[heiks]

Having seen the "xxth division renamed to xxth guards division" event quite a few times I only recently started to wonder about the actual effects of that change. So far I have been unable to find any.

Is there anything special about these divisions (different organization, etc.) in game terms, or is the only effect the change in the name?

[Mist]

As you probably know from the manual, ground units train themselves even without combat to a certain level of experience. So, Russian Guard units train to higher experience level(80 in current version) 5 exp.points per turn. The same is for elite SS units of Germans which train to 95(IIRC) in current version. Generic infantry divisions train to 80-(year-1941)*5 for Germans and 55+(year-1941)*5 for Russians.
Search for "did you know that?" thread in this forum. I was posting a lot of such things couple of months ago.

[heiks]

Originally posted by Mist:
As you probably know from the manual, ground units train themselves even without combat to a certain level of experience. So, Russian Guard units train to higher experience level(80 in current version) 5 exp.points per turn. The same is for elite SS units of Germans which train to 95(IIRC) in current version. Generic infantry divisions train to 80-(year-1941)*5 for Germans and 55+(year-1941)*5 for Russians.
Search for "did you know that?" thread in this forum. I was posting a lot of such things couple of months ago.

Ok, thanks. I actually remember the thread, but I think I'll go through it again.