Posted by: Jorgen_CAB
« on: October 16, 2022, 04:52:26 PM »Well... I usually role-play allot anyway so it does not bother me personally at all... just was not expecting the weak infantry to actually to be that valuable with roughly a 1/8 the firepower against other infantry from regular infantry. I probably will have to re-evaluate my garrison forces combat power in general.
167 CAP fires as many shots as 1000 PW by themselves, at that point the extra 1000 PWL are just meatshields to keep the CAP alive as long as possible. And of course they contribute 1/16 the killing power of the PW which is admittedly rather negligible. The meatshield effect is very powerful in Aurora.
Yeah, I hear its important to have infantry even in an armored unit solely because they can soak up shots meant for the tanks.
Question is how much do you want to dedicate to the 'meat'? I usually have 160-200 infantry in a 5000 ton battalion formation with the rest being vehicles. But thats just my instincts.
To be honest... I don't think there is any "best" ratio unless you are up against AI NPR that build from certain templates.
I just build my formations based on relatively realistic conditions and call it a day. So an APC might have about 8-10 infantry and an IFV about 6-8 infantry with support weapon infantry taking up 2-3 times the space in vehicles. Then you have support vehicles that have no infantry attached as I don't count the crew as infantry. Any formation with no vehicles are basically garrisons, so they are infantry and static units only.