What 3 companies should I buy If I want to be as accurate as possible?

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Originally Posted by PlasmaKrab

That's also not counting the cross-attached support units from division level (arty, air defense...). As far as I've understood the old FMs, the tank and mech battalions within an armored/mechanized division were rarely used as such and mainly mixed and matched as battalion-sized task forces.

One WWII US armoured division practice that I am familiar with was to take a tank battalion and mechanised infantry battalion, put them under a specific combat command, and then having them switch one company with each other (medium tank company to mech. inf. company) to form light and heavy task groups. Not sure how permanent formations these were, or if the cross-attached company got rotated sometimes.

AFAIK artillery (of the indirect sort) is not really cross-attached as such, but assigned to provide direct support to specific formations (ie. they would only answer to calls for fire from that formation) as opposed to general support.

If you are playing campaigns, then one approach would be to start with a full strenght battalion of a given type, and then use the auxiliary forces to represent whatever support you get from the regiment/brigade/division/corps for that particular battle.

Campaign play also nice introduces the possibility of having understrenght formations (if you do not have enough repair points after a battle) or the possibility of the unit obtaining additional equipment.

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