Infantry Specialist- Infantry Division +ATK/DEF?

[SepticFuddy]

So I'm playing with Italy using an army primarily made up of Mountaineers (pretty much everything around is hill/mountain heavy), and I'm wondering if adding Alfredo Guzzoni the Infantry specialist to government will add the "Infantry Division Attack +5%" and "Infantry Division Defense +10%" bonus to my Mountaineer troops as well? Is it really just for regular Infantry divisions or does it include infantry battalions? Or perhaps just the various other footsoldier types like Marines, Paratroopers, maybe even motorized inf?

Thanks

[Exarch_Alpha]

No, for elite troops you need the Commando guy instead.

[gyzbug]

Infantry is only the Infantry, Special Forces are Marines, Paratroopers, and Mountineers.

Leg Infantry includes all four of them.

[SepticFuddy]

Italy dont got no commando guy :( thanks

[Exarch_Alpha]

To be honest I don´t think you should get more than 3 or 4 extra mountaineers and even then, just because of Yugoslavia. Attacking France is waste of manpower. Attacking UK in North Africa is better done with motorized, armor and even plain standard infantry.

Most important things for Italy are good planes and good battleships. Carriers are dumb until mid-late game (after 1942).

[SepticFuddy]

Yeah I'm not attacking France and UK at all so far, snubbed Germany and went the Novus Imerium Romanum route. Last paythrough I got screwed because I was playing the tutorial and didn't help Franco so the Republicans ended up winning. I conquered them (using lots of mountaineers since it's all hills and mountains) but that got me in an early war with the Soviets and both my air game and construction game were crap so I could never keep my fighters in the air over Italy. On top of that, I made friends with Yugoslavia and added them to my faction and Germany decides to demand Slovenia from them even though they're fighting the Allies and Soviets and having serious problems, which is just stupid. A huge mess.

This playthrough I helped Franco win and took over Yugoslavia, also very mountainous. My hope is to beat the Soviets once I get a strong faction set up. If Germany loses or I have to fight them again, also a very mountainous region. Also might end up fighting back the Soviet Caucasus offensive in Turkey. I've even got a couple mountain companies in my infantry divisions to dampen the penalty. Assuming I get far enough, I'll probably trade some Alpine divisions for my cavalry divisions, which are tank-escorted motorized infantry, and adjust recruitment appropriately.

I'm basically trying to avoid fighting the allies, which really wasn't that hard to manage during the playthrough that turned into a mess. I just couldn't recover from early Soviet strategic bombing, because I didn't know what I was doing until far too late. This time I should be able to keep air superiority and hopefully get good strategic bombing in once I get to fighting major powers. And I've made way more civilian factories while it's nice and quiet, working on air defense construction.

And yeah I agree carriers are useless until you're branching out quite a ways.

[Kadrush]

3 regiments of 4 mount with 1 artillery for each plus recon, engies and support artie makes a pretty solid mountain division (specially with superior firepower doc). Same goes for marines.

[SepticFuddy]

I should try that thanks