Luftwaffe Field Division

[Duck1970]

How do people use the Luftwaffe Field Divisions? I am getting spammed-6 divisions of lower strength troops so far plus an HQ of the same name. I am winter 1943 in 41-45 campaign. Do I put them at the front? Do I use them as garrison? Can I merge them? Thank you for any help.

[No idea]

They are good as garrison. Remember that you allies cant go beyond the brest litovsk line. You need a good number of crappy germen units as garrison. SEC german units you get arent enough once you have taken Leningrad and Moscow.

[swkuh]

vs AI games:

Luftwaffe divisions are useful in quiet sectors; do stacks of 3 and reserves all Luftwaffe. Allow corps HQs useful amounts arty/aa etc. These are not attack formations.

BTW, in re garrisons, now using minimal garrisons (50%) and not seeing bad results.

Think if the German has Lenin's & Stalin's grads (or, Moscow) he's doing pretty good.

[Duck1970]

OK thanks for the reply's. It is Feb. 43 and I have taken Leningrad and Moscow vs. AI on Medium difficulty. I cant crack Sebastopol so I dont know if I should risk taking Stalingrad with Crimea bottle neck. Sounds like the LFDs are going to garrison Moscow to free up the armor that is hibernating there.

[Denniss]

2-3 of them start with decent experience, the others are just mediocre. AFAIR they'll later get an OB upgrade that makes them a tad stronger in heavy weapons.
Instead of repeating history, wasting the poorly trained men in heavy offensive actions where many did poorly, use them as rear guard or disband them (except those with better exp)

[Cavalry Corp]

But there should be a LW pool they disband to. I use them quite a lot ( AGN in the woods is good) stacked with other units they do ok - Now in April 43.