Summer Campaign Organisation

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Spanish Frontier Division

Division Commander (Brevet Mashal de France)MA 6 Adjudant MA 5

1st Brigade

1st Brigade Commander MA 5 Etat-Chef MA 3

Dragoon Guards
Crown Prince Curiassers

2nd Brigade

2nd Brigade Commander/Brevet Marshal de Camp MA 6 (8) Etat Chef: MA 8

RNHB
Provence Regiment
Spanish Frontier Regiment

Flanders Army

Army Commander MA 6 Adjudant MA

1st Brigade

1st Brigade Commander MA 5 Etat Chef MA 6

Queen's Own Carabineers
Royal Cravattes

2nd Brigade

2nd Brigade Commander MA 3 (4) Etat Chef MA 6

Normandy Regiment
French Guard

3rd Brigade

3rd Brigade Commander MA 3 (4) Etat Chef MA 5

Champagne Regiment
Brittany Regiment

4th Brigade

4th Brigade Commander MA 5 Etat Chef MA 4

Gascon Regiment
Flanders Frontier Regiment

Lorraine Division

Division Commander MA 4 Adjudant MA

1st Brigade

[/b][/b]1st Brigade Commander MA 5 Etat Chef MA 5
King's Curiassers
Anjou Dragoons

2nd Brigade

2nd Brigade Commander MA 6 Etat Chef MA 5

Languedoc Regiment
Picardy Musketeers
Lorraine Frontier Regiment

[Jacques Bougiedure]

Why do the 4 brigades on the Flanders Front report directly to an Army Commander instead of intermediate Division Commanders? Based on the general rule of two regiments to a brigade, you could (should?) have two divisions of two brigades each under the command of the Flanders Army.

[Ymbert Montgomery]

Divisions work differently under these rules.

Within each army, there will be a number of command positions. Every two regiments of the same type (including the frontier regiment) will be formed into a brigade. If there are less than three brigades in the army, the army is termed a division and a Marshal de Camp will commanded it. A Marshal de France commands larger armies.

There is a contradiction that needs sorting:

18.20 Brigades
Regiments are not organised into permanent brigades, but instead, 2 or 3 regiments of the same type (infantry and cavalry) may be placed into a brigade when serving at the front. Such allocations are on an ad hoc basis and last only as long as the regiments remain at the front. Brigades formed for
the summer campaign are formed for the whole year.

The latter's the rule we're going with.

[Ymbert Montgomery]

So divisions are now "small armies".

[gaston]

Apr 30, 2020 1:55:23 GMT Ymbert Montgomery said:

So divisions are now "small armies".

Even so, shouldn't the four brigades of the Flanders army be grouped into two divisions?  If all those regiments can go on campaign, but contain only two divisions, there is going to be an insane level of competition for division commands as PC rise up through the ranks.  There would certainly be four divisions according to the standard EG! army organisation.