Finnish Defence Forces Army has published their new "local defence model":
http://www.puolustusvoimat.fi/wcm/03...df?MOD=AJPERES (pdf, 2.8 MB)
Here's some background work and in the end I try to intertwine it to SPMBT. Please try to bear with me for a while as I'll summarize the most important pages:
Page 3, Army wartime troops from 2015 on
- Army 150 000 men
- Operative troops 20%
- FDF Rapid Deployment Brigades
- Mechanized battle groups
- Motorized battle groups
- Special Jaeger Batallion
- Helicopter Batallion
- Detail units
- Regional troops 60%
- Infantry Brigades
- Infantry Batallions and combat groups
- Branch troops
- Detail units
- Local troops 20%
- Separately formed troops
- AT Companies
- Mortar Companies
- FG and AA Batteries
- Tank Companies
- Other units
Operative troops should be represented as top of the notch companies and this categorization has already been seen in the reserve training where the emphasis is on important key strategic troops as opposed to, well, me. According to this public documentation, they'll be the best equipped bunch from these. So to map the current WinSPMBT companies and platoons, I propose it to be divided to (in parentheses their current exp/morale adjustment):
- Operative troops 20%
- Special Jaegers (+15 +15)
- RDF Co/Pl (+10 +15)
- Para Co/Pl/Co[A]/Pl[A] (+10 +10)
- Coast Eng Pl (+8 +8)
- Sissi Co/Pl (+5 +10)
- Sissi Mortar Pl (+5 +10)
- Sissi Lt Mortar (+5 +10)
- Coast Jaeger Co/Pl (+5 +5)
- Heavy Arty Bn/Bty (+5 +5
- Artillery Bn/Bty (+5 +5)
- Field Gun Bty/Pl (+5 +5)
- SPA Bt/Bty/Sec (+0 +0)
- MRV Inf Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- MRV Support Pl (+0 +0)
- BV Jaeger Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- CV Jaeger Co/pl (+0 +0)
- Mech AT Plt (+0 +0)
- Bde TOW Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- Helicopters (+0 +0)
- AMOS Assault Pl (+0 +0)
- TOW BV Pl (+0 +0)
- Pioneer Tank (Pl) (+0 +0)
- Regional troops 60%
- Pz Jaeger Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- Pz Pioneer Co/pl (+0 +0)
- Scouts (+0 +0)
- Ski Scouts (+0 +0)
- Infanty Co (+0 +0)
- Jaeger Co (+0 +0)
- Sniper (Grp) (+0 +0)
- Pioneer Plt/Det (+0 +0)
- GL Section (+0 +0)
- Infantry AT-Grp (+0 +0)
- Apilas Plt (+0 +0)
- Local troops 20%
- Separately formed troops
- Mineclearing Pl (+0 +0)
- MBT (Co/Pl) (+0 +0)
- Inf-SAM Sec/Det (+0 +0)
- AAG/SPAAG/AAMG Bty/Pl (+0 +0)
- The rest of generic (non-FG/SPA) ARTILLERY units (+0 +0)
- All the things in MISC (+0 +0) except...
- Tractors (-5 +0)
- etc
Naturally the units in the game fall heavily on the A-list as nobody is interested in creating the small nuances between Ostrobothnian reservists vs. North Karelian reservists. I propose the following adjustments to be made as there is still plenty of space in the Finnish OOB:
Copy / Modify
Formations 285, 286, 287: MRV Inf Co/Pl to MRV Jaeger Co/Pl:
Difference between Infantry and Jaeger is the equipment, most importantly the XA-185/202 APCs which are missing from the infantry troops. They have trucks or if they're really out of luck then they have tractors.
End current formations to 12/2014 if you are worried about compatibility and replace the units
127 Infantry Sec with unit
113 Jaeger Section and start the new formation from 1/2015 with +3 / +3 morale/exp boost. Alternatively it could be renamed to "Motor Inf Co/Pl" and be given trucks instead. Or if that is the game developers' view, then drop it to the "60% regional troops" class and do nothing.
Modify
Unit 400: CV9030S: Change unit class to 120 Heavy APC or 127 Gun APC (Tracked)
CV and Pz Companies are overlapping as both are able to pick CV9030S or BMP-2 as they like. However they should represent totally differing types of troops: one driving a 1980's Lada and another driving 2000's Volvo
.
Change unit class to either 120 or 127 (or another compatible if there are effects in the game mechanics from picking either one of these). The unit is already of movement type Tracked.
Modify
Give operative troops a bit of exp/morale improvement:
Formations 285*, 286*, 287*, 019, 032, 300*, 301*, 168, 141, 140, 013**, 014 : Bump up the morale and experience a notch (+3, +3)
MRV Jaeger Co/Pl, MRV Support Pl, BV Jaeger Co/Pl, CV Jaeger Co/Pl, Mech AT Plt, Bde TOW Co/Pl, AMOS Assault Pl, TOW BV Pl
Formations 146, 147, 152 : Bump up the morale to respective values of non-SP arty units (+5, +5)
SPA Bt/Bty/Sec
* Modifications proposed also in other parts of this post
** Modifications to affected units proposed earlier in this thread
Copy & Modify
Add the regional artillery (see page 4 of the PDF) by copying the existing arty formations, renaming them to "Res. Arty Bn/Bty" and "Res. FG Bn/Bty"
Formations 175, 176, 230, 233 : Copy units to new slots, remove the morale and experience bonus: (+0, +0) for Artillery Bn/Bty, Field Gun Bty/Pl
Modify
Add some AT weaponry to Reserve squads:
Formation 252 Reserve Platoon
Add a copy of a unit 046 - Orak Team available from 1/96 on and with class 161 - Reserve Sup't Squad which is unused in the OOB. In 12/95 HMG section goes away from the company and 66 KeS Orak (M72 LAW) becomes pretty low-tech as Apilas has been around for 9 years. This date trick allows the unit to replace the gap removal of HMG leaves them and some slight AT capability against IFVs and APCs. Alternatively it can be added as of 1/2015 to capture only the recent changes.
Add this unit to formation 252.
Copy & Modify
Add Reserve light mortar platoon for Reserve troops (see page 14, the structure of a "local company": Jääkärijoukkue = Jaegar platoon, Kevyt kranaatinheitinjoukkue = light mortar platoon)
Res. Mortar Pl
Copy formation 109 Mortar Pl(3) to new formation and rename it to "Res. Mortar Pl" and give it (-5, -5) modifiers.
After modifications the new modifiers will be (changed values in
bold:
- Operative troops 20%
- Special Jaegers (+15 +15)
- RDF Co/Pl (+10 +15)
- Para Co/Pl/Co[A]/Pl[A] (+10 +10)
- Coast Eng Pl (+8 +8)
- Sissi Co/Pl (+5 +10)
- Sissi Mortar Pl (+5 +10)
- Sissi Lt Mortar (+5 +10)
- Coast Jaeger Co/Pl (+5 +5)
- Heavy Arty Bn/Bty (+5 +5
- Artillery Bn/Bty (+5 +5)
- Field Gun Bty/Pl (+5 +5)
- SPA Bt/Bty/Sec (+5 +5)
- MRV Jaeger Co/Pl (+3 +3)
- MRV Support Pl (+3 +3)
- BV Jaeger Co/Pl (+3 +3)
- CV Jaeger Co/Pl (+3 +3)
- Mech AT Plt (+3 +3)
- Bde TOW Co/Pl (+3 +3)
- AMOS Assault Pl (+3 +3)
- TOW BV Pl (+3 +3)
- Helicopters (+0 +0)
- Pioneer Tank (Pl) (+0 +0)
- Regional troops 60%
- Pz Jaeger Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- Pz Pioneer Co/Pl (+0 +0)
- Scouts (+0 +0)
- Ski Scouts (+0 +0)
- Infanty Co (+0 +0)
- Jaeger Co (+0 +0)
- Sniper (Grp) (+0 +0)
- Pioneer Plt/Det (+0 +0)
- GL Section (+0 +0)
- Infantry AT-Grp (+0 +0)
- Apilas Plt (+0 +0)
- Res. Arty Bn/Bty (+0 +0)
- Res. FG Bty/Pl (+0 +0)
- Local troops 20%
- Reserve Co/Pl (-5 -5)
- Res. Mortar Pl (-5 -5)
- Separately formed troops
- Mineclearing Pl (+0 +0)
- MBT (Co/Pl) (+0 +0)
- Inf-SAM Sec/Det (+0 +0)
- AAG/SPAAG/AAMG Bty/Pl (+0 +0)
- The rest of generic (non-FG/SPA) ARTILLERY units (+0 +0)
- All the things in MISC (+0 +0) except...
- Tractors (-5 +0)
- etc