Order of Battle

[sirhiggins]

Anyone knows where to find and OOB for the French army (both colonial and regular) for the era?

[Siegfroh]

This book contains all the info, but doesn't seem to have an overview which unit is attached to which territorial division - you will have to compose such a list yourself:

http://le50enlignebis.free.fr/spip.php?article13892

[sirhiggins]

I'm not very good in french but thanks anyway.
Looking for something similar like this from Napoleonic era: http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/miscallenous_napoleonic.htm
Or maybe something with disposition also.

[sirhiggins]

Ok, maybe we can try a different

If somebody would like to share with us his army compositions for different role, than advance.
Any suggestions are appreciated.

I start with my typical colonial division composition:
Mainly for Africa

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2 expeditionary regiments (one mixed, one inf.)
2 colonial Bde. each with one-one art.bty.

And this is one of my main army in Indochina:

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1 regular Inf.Div (I know it's not the best solution for this, but they were the only available at the time)
1 light Inf. Bde.
1 marine Bde.
2 expeditionary regiments (one mixed, one inf.)

[sirhiggins]

And maybe somebody with an idea about french navy disposition, bases?

[czert2]

your africa unit looks ok, but i will recomend you to build more supply depots and if posible bigger port for better suppling of units there (having merchants in trade zone is must have for supply flow)

your main indochina unit . if posible add there supply wagons, they realy help in combat, especialy to arty units in terms of firepower. and if posibe replace 1* commander with 2* one, you have comand penalty here, which reduce not only firepower but speed of unit movement too (speed is very needed to deal with iregular forces).
and experiment with switching these comanders for africa and indochina, 1* commanders have trait which reduce supply consumption, very useful in africa, but it depens how big units they comand and if you are willing to deal with command penalties for bigger units. (but supply problems can be dealed with enough of supply depots and improving infrastructure).

and just noticed - just look at firepower of booth posted units, your idnochina force have just little bigger firepower 389 vs 340 of africa, despite having on paper much more powerfull unit - as told, CP is bitch.