So I was playing the Vistula-Berlin offensive campaign from the Soviet side, to get a feel for them as most of the beginner campaigns(road to) are axis focused.
Now I do have a lot, and I do mean A LOT of random brigade sized units kicking around. Almost exclusively armor and artillery. Question is: What do I do with them? The armor is somewhat use full for encirclements and scouting out the enemy. But the Artillery is just in the way. I have not managed to get anything to merge and am unsure if that is even a thing in this case.
So yeah, can anyone tell me what the point of these units is? Do they actually enter in to battle like support attachments do or do I have to manually make them par of an attack?
The artillery is capable of joining an deliberate attacks from 2 hexes away. Place them behind your attacking units and hover mouse over them while pressing shift, like you would usually do while selecting units to attack from multiple hexes.
The brigades you could put on reserve status (click on the place that usually says "ready" on the unit). While in reserve (a couple of hexes behind the front), they can spontaneously join both offensive and defensive fights, if only lady luck is on your side. Having good leaders increases the chance of it happening.
24 152mm Gun-Howitzer (Heavy Artillery)
12 122mm Field Gun (Heavy Artillery)
40 Support
1136 men, 36 guns, 0 AFV, CV 0.40 (0.13 @ 60)
My suggestion for future game updates,is to move them to hq support class and keep only division size arty on map.
In 1944 soviet orbat goes from 22 arty bde to 70 arty bde , while the number of separate reg drops from 228 to 126.
To simulate a historical orbat perhaps some corps arty regiments could upgrade to brigades .
(the only alternative now, is to disband existing trained regiments and build new brigades with low experience )
