Merging units

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Merging units

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I haven't been able to find merging info in the manual. What are the restrictions on merging Axis units? I'm trying to merge two Rumanian Cav Divs, but I keep getting a 'Units in this hex cannot be merged' message.
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Hum, I've only done it a couple times. Do they have the same command?...
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Yes. Same HQ, not adjacent to an enemy unit, in supply, in HQ range, both are 'Ready'...Can't think of anything else (other than a quirk burried somewhere in the manual). Can Axis minors even merge? They can't split...
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TOE generally has to be at or below 50 for the units in question. Is that the case? You can't go over 100, I seem to have observed (or not by much).
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and perhaps can't merge with unit withdrawing later
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IIRC Only German & Finnish units can be built up, from Regiments to Divisions

Merging is to make one unit out of two units

Are you trying to buildup with Hotkey B or actually merge

There has been some past confusion with the two terms
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Hey Cookie,

Thanks for all you great replies - been very helpful to me as I delve into the game.

PS I hope you don't follow football.
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IIRC Only German & Finnish units can be built up, from Regiments to Divisions

Merging is to make one unit out of two units

Are you trying to buildup with Hotkey B or actually merge

There has been some past confusion with the two terms
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ORIGINAL: heliodorus04

TOE generally has to be at or below 50 for the units in question. Is that the case? You can't go over 100, I seem to have observed (or not by much).

Both units are about 55 TOE, so maybe that's it? I just figured if I could get one full strength Div it's better than two weak ones. Maybe they're just not low enough.
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ORIGINAL: cookie monster

IIRC Only German & Finnish units can be built up, from Regiments to Divisions

Merging is to make one unit out of two units

Are you trying to buildup with Hotkey B or actually merge

There has been some past confusion with the two terms

Definitely not doing buildup. I'm clicking the Merge Unit text in the unit screen. I am suspecting that you're correct about only Finnish and German untis being able to use this.
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Definitely not doing buildup. I'm clicking the Merge Unit text in the unit screen. I am suspecting that you're correct about only Finnish and German units being able to use this.

Save the game and check it.

Then you'll know if you've hit some obscure rule.
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I don't know whether there's any limit to merging units (making 1 unit out of 2, which removes one of the two units from the game) for minor Axis nations, but that would be somewhat peculiar. You can't form any minor Axis units or break them down (aside from Finnish units), but at this time I'm not aware of limits to merging units when their TOE's are below 50.

By the way: merges can result in current TOE percentages going over 100%. As long as they're not higher than 125%, they won't automatically decrease either.
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IIRC from a 1942 scenario I was playing, I couldn't merge Axis minors (didn't do any Finns though).
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To avoid confusion: when I'm talking about merging units, I'm talking about a low strength unit absorbing another unit, which removes the second unit from the game. I'm not talking about two units becoming a bigger unit (such as two Soviet Rifle brigades becoming a Rifle division.
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