Layout...What do ya think?, organizing my armies

I declare a redo. I shall post when it is complete.

Edited...ready for tweaks.

250 marines per IFV; 83 ‘anti-tank armed’ troops per APC. Those are some truly massive vehicles you got there.

Officers are usually not organized into a separate officer corps, leaving their poor subofficers to direct their regiments. Usually you have an HQ unit consisting of the division commander and his staff, and the brigade commanders have their own HQ units within their brigades.

Hey, I'm a small nation....I only have 263 million population. I can't just spam vehicles.

If you're so small you cannot properly equip a division, perhaps you shouldn't have divisions?

EDIT: It's not a matter of population (the US is around 300 million by the way) but of economics. The point still stands

EDIT2: I find it easier to do things bottom up instead. That is, start with a section or a platoon and build from there.

Well, I have a 1.09 trillion defense budget, so I think I might start production to fill this division.

So it turns out you're neither small nor poor, yet you have an under-equipped army because you ''can't just spam vehicles''?

On a more interesting note, why do you have marine regiments in your army divisions?

Or you can just do what I did and base it on a RL example.

See, I have trouble defining the line between "god modding" and "I'm just rich enough to do that" sorta thing....I don't wanna spam out to many vehicles, but yet I need to fill a division....

And the Marine Regiments are to provide the troops with more professional support. Marines tend to be able to fight in tight spaces well like ships and cities so I stuck them in there to supplement your average joe in that role.

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What is your population?
What is your Army for? Yes its a real question.
All nations tend to have some focus to their military and this is exagerrated on NS. What kind of 'centric' are you?
Do you use some type of conscription? What type?
If no, how do you attract volunteers?

Q1. 226 million

Q2. Hmmm, I'd say 40% defensive, 60% offensive

Q3. I don't quite understand the question

Q4. Yes, I conscript as much as I need for a 6 year service term

Q5. I do try volunteers as well, and put them in my higher up divisions like the Royal and Blue Guards. I usually attract them with patriotism. Anyone who joins willingly is one unwilling person that can stay home.

You know what, sorry I am not the best one for this and i dont want to confuse the issues for you...so forget it. You need more help then i am comfortable with my own understanding to give.Several other folks here are far better at organization then I and am I sure they will chime in.

The United States does not seem to care about godmodding, and can comfortably equip several divisions. Even the Soviet Union, the economy of which we can presume to be somewhat weaker, fielded like, a lot of them. You are in no way near godmodding area, provided you roleplay as a first world country.

Cities; this seems odd. If I am not mistaken, the raison d'être of light infantry is their strategic mobility (because of a lack of heavy equipment) and ability to operate under difficult circumstances; binding them up within a regular division would seem to negate this. It would be much better I think, to train your regular soldiers in FIBUA and keep light infantry separate, for when you really need a mountain division/air assault/specialized FIBUA units. I am by no means an export on this however.
Ships; no. You do not need a division to board a ship.

(assuming I don't misunderstand Falls)

This needs to be expanded upon. What do you want your army to do? In what geographical/military/political contexts do you see yourself operating? What are your army's role vis-á-vis the other branches of your armed forces (which are the other branches of your armed forces?), and so on and so forth.

For example Sumer/Dostanut Loj is very vehicle-centric; V10 (if he is still around) saw the army as more of a support for his air force (if memory serves). In large parts, this will depend on your answer to question number two.

The United States does not seem to care about godmodding, and can comfortably equip several divisions. Even the Soviet Union, the economy of which we can presume to be somewhat weaker, fielded like, a lot of them. You are in no way near godmodding area, provided you roleplay as a first world country.

Cities; this seems odd. If I am not mistaken, the raison d'être of light infantry is their strategic mobility (because of a lack of heavy equipment) and ability to operate under difficult circumstances; binding them up within a regular division would seem to negate this. It would be much better I think, to train your regular soldiers in FIBUA and keep light infantry separate, for when you really need a mountain division/air assault/specialized FIBUA units. I am by no means an export on this however.
Ships; no. You do not need a division to board a ship.

(assuming I don't misunderstand Falls)

This needs to be expanded upon. What do you want your army to do? In what geographical/military/political contexts do you see yourself operating? What are your army's role vis-á-vis the other branches of your armed forces (which are the other branches of your armed forces?), and so on and so forth.

For example Sumer/Dostanut Loj is very vehicle-centric; V10 (if he is still around) saw the army as more of a support for his air force (if memory serves). In large parts, this will depend on your answer to question number two.

Q2. Ok:

Geographical: My army has fought in a variety of climates. Forests and plains being the majority of them, but I have specialized divisions of troops trained for just one environment.

Political: I mainly operate in established, stable nation, but the one time I tested my army a Black Hawk Down like situation, they proved inadequate and I had to MOAB the cities, killing everyone including the gangs.

Military: I have designed my armed forces around the assumption of facing highly equipped and trained opponents like Lyras and Lamoni.

Q3: I envision my airforce as a support to the ground troops

I can organise a Division for you. Just tell me what type (Infantry isn't good enough: I need to have a rough idea of doctrine, mechanised, motorised, armour independent or attached, etc artillery massed at division or corps level, etc.)

Basically do you have the majority of your combat support elements, tanks, artillery, SAMs, AT etc, at the Corps level or do you have them at the division level.

With 226 million people you could have a hundred divisions or you could have five. It depends on what kind of country you run.