Army structure

So, a while ago I wrote this on the structure of unit stacks, as I'm always being annoyed that everything is at Division level. Sadly, I miss timed when I wrote this and posted it during a time when Aircraft Carriers dominated the forum, so it sunk below level.

I've slightly adjusted some things to flow better and make sense. I really enjoyed the Army structure on S1914, and I'm still a firm believer this game should take the best from S1914 and implement them in CoW.

TankBuster wrote:

CoW uses a system to combine armies and form them into larger groups. We all know this, however, i've noticed some serious pit falls in this- basically, they don't make sense.

For reference, I will be trying to use the both Heer (Germn Army, WW2) and Standard British Army formation.

Armies

While this game gets everything correct up until Regimental/Brigade level (while 'brigades' are generally around 5000 men, British tank units are referred to as 'regiments' and operate in 'squadrons') the game gets confused at division level.

A division is when two 'or more brigades come together (in non-tank related terms, a brigade is a military command based around a single regiment, with supporting units around that unit) and form a single unit. Then, when several divisions come together, they become a Corp (a corp in a the field is different to a standard formation- EG: the USMC/RMC have nothing to with XX Corp or anything like that) and when Corps come together, they become 'Field armies'

Field Armies, such as the 21st Army Group, are huge. Two or more armies make up a theatre of operations and are called 'Army groups'. While the soviets refer to several armies as a 'army front'- but soviet deployment structures in WW2 made the German, US and UK generals have OCD.

To recap, this is what everything should look like:

1. Army group (Army group South) (40+ units)
2. Field Army (6th Army) (20-39 units)
3. Corp (XI Corp) (10-19 units)
4. Division (82nd Airborne) (2-9 units)
5. Regiment/Brigade (The Kings Royal Hussars) (1 unit)

Navy

This hurts me, but CoW has about as much knowledge about naval deployment as my mother. So, lets break this down:

• Navy- all ships in the service
• Fleet- all ships in a certain area, North Sea fleet for example (9-20 ships)
• Squadron- a group of war ships, not large enough to be a fleet, but still comprising of many ships. (5-8 ships)
• Flotilla-small group of ships, might or might not have capital ships. (1-4 ships)
• Carrier task force/fleet- Honourable mention, while basically a fleet, the name states it has carrier craft.

A 'task force' can fit into the 'Squadron' term, but a 'Task force' is formed to do one job- like hunt the Bismark. I feel like the number of ships should fit in to what the unit is named, as it is in S1914, for example "2nd Naval Squadron HMS Fury"

As for the air force, I know very little of its structure. If you could help out, I would love that very much.