How to lock 2 front lines together ?

[frederic.bonave]

As you have Army next each other how do you lock their frontline together ?

[Blind]

Create an army group and use the field marshal to form the front line. It will connect them together. You can also hold shift while you create the front line and it will interweave the armies together instead of side by side.

[Mack]

you can use the right click hold to place a partial frontline, then change to the other army and overlap the ends with the other frontline.

[Blind]

Originally posted by Mack:

you can use the right click hold to place a partial frontline, then change to the other army and overlap the ends with the other frontline.

That doesn't stick them together though. A field marshal will maintain a connection between armies.

[frederic.bonave]

Thank you, and how you can do a continuous defence line to protect against countries which are enemy among the same alliance ?

[budisourdog]

Faction-wide frontlines are war only afaik. In peace you have to split your armies up and give them multiple frontline orders to have them on the borders.
If you have units that 100% will not attack and exist solely as a barrier you can draw a defense line in your own territory and the AI will spread units along it evenly. **You can't use this order for attack + the line gets breached the AI is absolutely atrocious in how it will behave vs if you had a real frontline order.**

[frederic.bonave]

What do you mean by atrocious ?

[budisourdog]

One tile falls > every nearby unit leaves entrenchment to try to attack the fallen tile which deletes all their entrenchment > the enemy then pushes on those tiles > more tiles fall
For pure "sit on these forts in defense" its actually better to delete the defense line order, as units with no orders only defend

[HunterFromAbove]

As others have pointed out using a field marshal is the answer. And regarding the continous front line against a faction you kinda can't do that before the war begins unless you use the defense line order. Once you are at war with the enemy faction you can create a continous front line on the borders of multiple countries from that faction since they are now at war with you, however before the war and if some of these countries don't join the war, you can only draw separate front lines for each country without using the defense line order.

[Blind]

Originally posted by budisourdog:

Faction-wide frontlines are war only afaik. In peace you have to split your armies up and give them multiple frontline orders to have them on the borders.
If you have units that 100% will not attack and exist solely as a barrier you can draw a defense line in your own territory and the AI will spread units along it evenly. **You can't use this order for attack + the line gets breached the AI is absolutely atrocious in how it will behave vs if you had a real frontline order.**

thats because you're using a fallback line which is the wrong response to the situation. If you do an area defense, the divisions will attempt to reclaim lost territory and distribute troops according to intruding divisions.

[apud.harald]

Can we just have - as with HOI3 - some halfway competent Theatre Commanders to sort that stuff out? Just as with HOI3, he can tell us what units he requires for the mission he has been given, so I can forget about a sideshow and get on with the main front.

As it is, it is a bloody nuisance. I dont need sideshows distracting me from the main event, and that is what theatre command so neatly resolved in HOI3.

[AdmiralPiett]

Originally posted by apud.harald:

Can we just have - as with HOI3 - some halfway competent Theatre Commanders to sort that stuff out? Just as with HOI3, he can tell us what units he requires for the mission he has been given, so I can forget about a sideshow and get on with the main front.

As it is, it is a bloody nuisance. I dont need sideshows distracting me from the main event, and that is what theatre command so neatly resolved in HOI3.

Oh god they're back

Here come the HOI3 fanboys to tell us all their outdated game is superior

[captain403]

Originally posted by AdmiralPiett:

Here come the HOI3 fanboys to tell us all their outdated game is superior

Managing the HOI3 OOB was a nightmare. Corps HQs (HQs in general, tbh) added nothing to the game. Heres hoping the devs never listen to the buffoons that want corps in the game.

[AdmiralPiett]

Originally posted by captain403:

Originally posted by AdmiralPiett:

Here come the HOI3 fanboys to tell us all their outdated game is superior

Managing the HOI3 OOB was a nightmare. Corps HQs (HQs in general, tbh) added nothing to the game. Heres hoping the devs never listen to the buffoons that want corps in the game.

If they find a good way to implement corps-level unitsI wouldn't be too pissed. They're historically accurate.

Porting over the HOI3 system is still a dumb idea though, no matter what the HOI3 fanboys think

[apud.harald]

Originally posted by AdmiralPiett:

Originally posted by apud.harald:

Can we just have - as with HOI3 - some halfway competent Theatre Commanders to sort that stuff out? Just as with HOI3, he can tell us what units he requires for the mission he has been given, so I can forget about a sideshow and get on with the main front.

As it is, it is a bloody nuisance. I dont need sideshows distracting me from the main event, and that is what theatre command so neatly resolved in HOI3.

Oh god they're back

Here come the HOI3 fanboys to tell us all their outdated game is superior

Oh, is that yet another snide comment from the admiral that gets banned all the time?
I have not said what you alleged, so your comment is lacking in veracity.
In simple words: you are loathsome.

[Benny]

Originally posted by apud.harald:

Originally posted by AdmiralPiett:

Oh god they're back

Here come the HOI3 fanboys to tell us all their outdated game is superior

Oh, is that yet another snide comment from the admiral that gets banned all the time?
I have not said what you alleged, so your comment is lacking in veracity.
In simple words: you are loathsome.

At least you actually had to do something in hoi3. Now you just draw your frontline and press attack, then go afk.