5.1.8.1 Advantages of Exchanging Battalions

The exchange battalion section can be used to make your army more efficient. It can sometimes be advantageous to have brigades containing only two, three or four battalions. These ‘cut down’ brigades can be used in several ways:

To garrison occupied territory.

To conquer neutral territory (No need to waste full strength five, six or seven battalion brigades.)

For efficient use of small fleets in troop transportation. (Less battalions in a brigade the less it weighs.)

For expendable invasion armies. (ten brigades of two or three battalion brigades make effective small armies to invade an enemy heartland. However, try to avoid any areas of enemy troop movements, and use them to capture important strategic production sites and force an enemy army to split. If they happen to meet the enemy and get wiped out then it is not an irreplaceable loss.)

Example:

Build four brigades, two consisting of five battalions of quality troops and two consisting of three battalions of poor quality low cost troops and two battalions of quality troops. The following turn transfer the two quality battalions, of each of the poor brigades into the two quality brigades. You will then be left with two seven battalion quality brigades and two three battalion poor quality brigades. The three battalion poor quality brigades can then be used in any of the ways described above.

If these poor quality brigades are to be used to invade enemy territory there might be little point training them, if they do meet an enemy army then they will probably get wiped out anyway. So, the money saved by not training them could be used in other more beneficial ways.

Remember, ten three battalion brigades of Militia can capture as much territory as ten seven battalion brigades of Guard Cavalry.

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