Loading woes

[Texashawk (OP)]

So this may have been answered before, but I'm trying to transport some low-tech divisions to Mars to quell some unrest (I started with a conventional start) and I though a division was the equivilent of 5 battalions. My transport task group says that the TG has a total carrying capacity of 9 bats but it still won't let me load. My large hauler (that I use for installations) has 25000 carry capacity and is included in this task group. What am I doing wrong? Do units not 'split' throughout a task group, ala War In The Pacific?

[joeclark77]

A brigade is the equivalent of five battalions (the Brigade HQ and four other battalions).  A division is the equivalent of up to four battalions plus the brigade HQ (i.e. 21 battalions).

Note that a Construction Battalion is actually the size of five battalions.  You can still put four of them under a Brigade HQ to make a brigade, but they take up much more space on a transport.

[Brian Neumann]

If you look on the ground unit build tab (F2 screen)  there is a column that lists the size of each unit.  A low tech unit has a size of 50.  A battalion has a size of 5, company size 1, and engineer units are size 25.  To fit a low tech unit on a transport will require 10 troop compartments.  They all need to be on the same ship as the computer will not divide a integral unit between ships.  You can also run into this problem loading a formed brigade or division into a task group.  Sometimes I found that I needed to load each ship individually and then group then into the task force to allow all the units to be loaded quickly.

Brian