Army Sorting

[MarshallDaGoat]

Im fairly new to hoi4 but idk if I should sort my divisions into different armies like all tank divisions in one and everything else in another?

[CatLoverJerryGarcia]

You can honestly organize them however you like. I tend to use a little roleplaying when I do such things but not everyone does.

[Bored Peon]

It is best to have generals and field marshal that compliment the units in the armies. For example you want the mech/motorized from both a field marshal and general. This means you can make and army of 24 motorized divisions and have half in the Middle East and the other half in Europe. Another example is Marines, the Invader reduced prep time stack with both field marshal and general. Both types also benefit greatly form having a commander with aggressive assaulter for the breakthrough bonus, while a defense army does not benefit from breakthrough.

The other thing is if they reach skill 5 they can choose a favorite tactic. You gt bonus chances to get that tactic from field marshal and general. The tactic for those officer may not even benefit other armies you have. Offense armies want tactics like Blitz, Suppressive Barrage, etc, while a defense army wants things like Overwhelming Firepower for a tactic.

For basic infantry army you do regional like you are thinking because most those generals will probably never even see combat. Like for example, as UK you got about 3 armies to secure UK, about 5-6 to secure Africa, 2-3 to secure Middle East, 10 or so to secure India. Simply because after your offensive force has swept through and eliminated the enemy the combat is pretty much over in the area. Those armies are just there to prevent other countries from doing a naval invasion and retaking it within a few weeks.

The final factor is most generals and field marshals are only going to reach maybe level 6 or so and even then that is only if you see heavy fighting. Which means the traits earned are pretty limited so it makes sense to keep them separated.

Now as far as history goes, I think the game is missing another step in the chain of command, Theatre commanders.