Divisions 1945 — Omega War
Stage 2 artifact review · staged research cycle: divisions-1945 (arsenal-1945 follow-up) · research executed 2026-06-11
alignment_status: review — Stage 2 of 3 (artifact review).
The exhaustive DRQ1–DRQ6 sweep approved at Stage 1 has been executed (14 search batches, 54 queries + 1 verification fetch, 2026-06-11) and written to the non-canonical working packet
The exhaustive DRQ1–DRQ6 sweep approved at Stage 1 has been executed (14 search batches, 54 queries + 1 verification fetch, 2026-06-11) and written to the non-canonical working packet
research/_working/preliminary-divisions-1945-research.md. This page renders the full packet —
findings, per-front order-of-battle tables, To&E proportions, deck-candidate shortlists, roster timetable,
the gated Phase/Deck-Construction Design Proposal, assumptions, gaps, and search log — and asks
the Stage-2 verdict gates. Stage 3 has not run: no canonical
research/divisions-1945.md, no glossary append, no tasks. Items tagged
[carried] reuse approved-artifact evidence and were not re-collected.
1. Stage-1 Approval Record read-only
Final compiled YAML, 2026-06-11 — all 7 gates answered, no unresolved negatives. Stage 2 was
authorized on this record. The route gate is not re-asked on this page; it is shown below as a
closed record.
| Gate | Answer | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Scope / non-goals | approve-as-proposed | DRQ1–DRQ6, deliverable shape incl. the gated design proposal, and non-goals locked as proposed. |
| Evidence coverage | approve-all-four | E1 encyclopedic · E2 official histories/OOB · E3 To&E detail · E4 genre precedent (calibration only). |
| Coverage checkpoint | exhaustive | Loop until new angles stop producing novel divisions or evidence (arsenal precedent). Honored — see §2 method note. |
| Assumptions | accept-all | DR-A1 division=deck anchor · DR-A2 five fronts at equal full depth · DR-A3 ~Aug-1945 baseline · DR-A4 feeds-not-authors · DR-A5 gated design proposal. |
| Working packet | approve-path | research/_working/preliminary-divisions-1945-research.md (written this stage). |
| File changes (Stage 3) | approve-file-set | Stage-3 canonical research/divisions-1945.md + index flip + packet archive/remove + page→confirmed + glossary append if approved. |
| Post-approval route | insert-other-cycle | User note, verbatim: "proposed divisions and decks roster" — after this artifact is confirmed, a new cycle proposing the game's actual division/deck roster runs before /game-genre-map (supersedes the standing continue-genre-map route). That cycle gets its own scope page when it starts. Closed record — not re-asked. |
2. Method & Executive Summary
Method: all evidence gathered via main-session web search/fetch on 2026-06-11 (research subagents have no web access — constraint carried from the audience, fantasy, and arsenal cycles). Stopping rule (exhaustive) honored: 14 search batches (54 queries + 1 verification fetch); the final batch produced only granularity on already-mapped angles — no novel formation classes, factions, or evidence categories. Confidence tags: [high] multi-source/encyclopedia-verified · [medium] single/secondary capture · [carried] reused from approved artifacts · inference labeled.
- The Aug-1945 standing board is documented on both sides — army level everywhere, division level for most of the West. US Third + Seventh Armies designated occupation forces 15 June 1945 under USFET; Berlin sequence 2nd Armored → 82nd Airborne (2 Aug); BAOR formed 25 Aug 1945 (I/VIII/XXX Corps Districts + Berlin); 25,000-man Canadian Army Occupation Force; French First Army (~10 divisions in Germany at VE Day). Soviet side: GSOFG (Zhukov, Wünsdorf, 9 June 1945) with its army set and HQ towns verified; Northern Group in Poland (300–400k, 30 rifle divisions); Central Group in Austria/Hungary. The Unthinkable planning mix — 64 US / 35 British+Dominion / 4 Polish / 10 re-armed German divisions vs ~170 Soviet (2.5:1, 4:1 infantry, 2:1 armor) — is now multi-sourced, upgrading arsenal gap 8.
- All five fronts populate, and the two genuinely hot edges are documented: XXII Corps' 266-mile corps-thin line in western Bohemia and the Morgan Line, where the 88th Infantry Division faces a Yugoslav Army of ~800,000. The USSR has troops on Norwegian soil (Finnmark) until 25 Sept 1945.
- Division anatomy lands as schema inputs, discharging the arsenal To&E deferral: US ID ~14,000 / US AD (light) 10,937 / UK armd 14,964 (338 tanks) / UK ID 18,347 / Soviet RD 9,435 vs Guards 10,670 (organic SU-76) / tank corps ≈168 tanks·13 rifle cos / mech corps ≈175 tanks·33 rifle cos / VG 10,000 (6 line bns) / Panzer-Division 45 at 1:5 panzer:panzergrenadier / 2e DB 14,454 US-pattern.
- Shortlists have real identity: 1st ID (the division that stays), 2nd Armored (first into Berlin), 82nd Airborne, 7th Armoured (Berlin parade), 11th Armoured (Comet) — vs 8th Guards (Chuikov), 2nd GTA (first into Berlin; the IS-3 parade), 1st GTA (Katukov), Kantemirovskaya — plus Polish II Corps (110k) and 1st Polish Armoured (the Maczków enclave) carrying the exile spotlight.
- Roster dynamics are asymmetric and dated — the US drains (points 85→50; 8M→684k by mid-1947; Constabulary 1 July 1946), the UK demobilizes by name and date (Guards Armoured → infantry 12 June 1945; 1st Airborne disbanded 15 Nov; 6th Airborne to Palestine Sept), the USSR thins but hardens (demob law 23 June 1945; corps→divisions from July 1945), the Polish People's Army grows (370k→440k), France is still standing divisions up. That asymmetry is the campaign clock.
- Escalation evidence converges on echelons, not dates (forward detachments, desant, kampfgruppen, combat commands) — and the genre's own spread (SD2 time-phases [carried] vs WARNO economy-only, verified this sweep, closing arsenal gap 7) leaves room for Omega War's commitment-band model (§9).
- Refit gives Pillar 1 four faction grammars: US individual replacement (body persists, blood churns) · Soviet cadre rebuild (phoenix divisions, 2–5 formations) · British cannibalization (59th Staffordshire dies so others live) · German doctrinal rebirth (50 VG refits + 30 new for the Ardennes).
3. DRQ1 — The Aug-1945 Order of Battle (all five fronts)
3.1 Front 1 — Central Germany (zonal line) — base game
Claim 1.1 — US occupation command. Third and Seventh Armies selected as the
occupation forces of Germany 15 June 1945; USFET stood up 1 July 1945 (HQ Frankfurt; Eisenhower as theater
commander and Military Governor; renamed EUCOM March 1947). At the final campaigns Eisenhower commanded ~90
full-strength divisions (25 armored, 5 airborne) — the pool the triage drew from. [high]
Claim 1.2 — The Unthinkable force mix, multi-sourced. Total Allied strength in
Europe 1 July 1945: 64 US / 35 British+Dominion / 4 Polish divisions + up to 10 German divisions
remobilised from POW status; the plan's 47 attacking divisions near Dresden faced an assessed ~170
Soviet divisions — 2.5:1 against overall, 4:1 in infantry, 2:1 in armor. Upgrades arsenal gap 8 from medium.
[high]
Claim 1.3 — Berlin sequence. 2nd Armored first into Berlin 4 July 1945 and
Truman's Potsdam honor guard (17 Jul–2 Aug); 82nd Airborne relieved it 2 August and held Berlin to 19 November
1945; 78th Infantry Division followed. [high]
Claim 1.4 — Seventh Army's end-of-war corps frame (sample). VI Corps (10th
Armored, 44th, 103rd Infantry), XV Corps (3rd Infantry, 20th Armored), plus 12th Armored, 45th, 63rd, 100th
Infantry — full Aug-1945 station-by-station list not captured open-source (gap 1; CMH ETO OB is the follow-up
source). [medium]
Claim 1.5 — Austria. USFA (Mark Clark) held Salzburg/Upper Austria south of the
Danube from May, the Vienna sector from August 1945; 3rd Infantry Division at Salzburg May–early July; 11th
Armored crossed into Austria April 1945. Occupation peak ~150,000 Soviet / 55,000 British / 40,000 US / 15,000
French; France took Vorarlberg + North Tyrol 9 July 1945. [high]
Claim 1.6 — BAOR. Formed 25 August 1945 from 21st Army Group as I, VIII, XXX
Corps Districts + British Troops Berlin; early formations include Guards (ex-armoured), 3rd, 5th, 15th (Scottish)
Infantry, 7th Armoured. One capture puts the force at 80,000 at renaming [medium].
7th Armoured (~10,000 troops) led the Berlin victory parade 21 July 1945 before Churchill.
[high]
Claim 1.7 — Canadian Army Occupation Force. ~25,000 men as "3rd Canadian
Division, CAOF" (rebadged) governing Aurich–Oldenburg; guarding 120,000 German PWs in-sector by 29 May 1945;
relieved by 52nd (Lowland) Division 15 May 1946, repatriated through June 1946. [high]
Claim 1.8 — French First Army. >130,000 French troops in four divisions in
southern Germany by the Rhine crossing; 1,250,000 under arms with 10 divisions in Germany at VE Day; Stuttgart
fait accompli forced the zone. The ten new divisions announced Nov 1944 were created May 1945, partially
outfitted. [high] (named-division set beyond 2e DB partial — gap 4)
Claim 1.9 — GSOFG (Soviet bloc). Established 9 June 1945 (directive 29 May)
from 1st/2nd Belorussian Front formations under Zhukov, HQ Wünsdorf. Verified army set with HQ towns: 1st Guards
Tank Army (Radebeul) · 2nd GTA (Fürstenberg/Havel) · 4th GTA (Eberswalde) · 2nd Shock (Goldberg→Schwerin) · 3rd
Shock (Stendal) · 5th Shock (Nauen→Potsdam) · 8th Guards (Jena→Nohra) + 47th, 49th, 70th Armies + 1st Polish
Army (two divisions) + 16th Air Army. Drawdown began immediately (29 May 1945 order disestablishing rifle
corps/divisions; 2nd Shock left Jan 1946; 47th Army disbanded Feb 1946). [high]
Claim 1.10 — Army biographies (deck identity anchors). 2nd GTA first into
Berlin; 8th Guards — Chuikov took Weidling's surrender of Berlin 2 May 1945; 3rd Shock at Magdeburg from Jan
1946; 1st GTA (Katukov, Feb 1943–war's end) "arguably the most famous" tank army, Berlin encirclement partner.
[high]
| Bloc | Echelon | Formation | Note | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West | Theater | USFET (Eisenhower, Frankfurt) | from 1 Jul 1945 | high |
| West | Army | US Third Army | occupation army (15 Jun 1945) | high |
| West | Army | US Seventh Army | VI Corps (10th Armd, 44th, 103rd ID) · XV Corps (3rd ID, 20th Armd) · 12th Armd, 45th, 63rd, 100th ID — end-of-war frame | medium (gap 1) |
| West | Division | 2nd Armored → 82nd Airborne (2 Aug) | Berlin sector | high |
| West | Division | 1st Infantry Division | the stay-behind anchor | high |
| West | Army Group → BAOR | I, VIII, XXX Corps Districts + Berlin | BAOR from 25 Aug 1945 | high |
| West | Divisions | Guards (ex-armd) · 3rd · 5th · 15th Scottish · 7th Armoured | BAOR formation set | high |
| West | Division | 3rd Canadian Division (CAOF) | Aurich–Oldenburg, 25,000 | high |
| West | Army | French First Army | ~10 divisions in Germany at VE Day; zone by fait accompli | high / medium names |
| East | Group | GSOFG (Zhukov, Wünsdorf) | 9 Jun 1945, ex-1st/2nd Belorussian Fronts | high |
| East | Tank armies | 1st GTA (Radebeul) · 2nd GTA (Fürstenberg) · 4th GTA (Eberswalde) | high | |
| East | Armies | 2nd Shock · 3rd Shock (Stendal) · 5th Shock (Potsdam) · 8th Guards (Jena→Nohra) · 47th · 49th · 70th | high | |
| East | Allied / Air | 1st Polish Army (two divisions) · 16th Air Army | inside GSOFG | high |
3.2 Front 2 — North German Plain & Baltic — DLC #1
Claim 1.11 — Northern Group of Forces (Poland). Directive No. 11097 of 10 June
1945, based on Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front: 300,000–400,000 strong — three ground armies + one air army,
four tank corps (reorganized into tank divisions from July 1945), 30 rifle divisions, 12 air divisions, one
cavalry corps, 10 artillery divisions. [high]
Claim 1.12 — Polish People's Army. 370,000 (May 1945) → 440,000 (September
1945) — the only growing force on the board. 1st Army on the southern border (Jelenia Góra–Užok), 2nd Army on
the western border (Jelenia Góra–Kamień Pomorski); 10 infantry divisions (1st–10th) + 5 armoured brigades
between the field armies [medium — single capture]; armor mass
[carried] (195 T-34-85 at Bautzen; 2×21 IS-2). [high on strengths]
Claim 1.13 — Denmark. British 1st Parachute Brigade began flying into
Copenhagen 7 May 1945 — to take the German surrender and "to act as a further deterrent to any Soviet
involvement." Bornholm's Soviet garrison not swept (gap 6). [high]
| Bloc | Formation | Note | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| West | BAOR I / XXX Corps Districts | northern zone | high |
| West | 1st Parachute Brigade (Copenhagen) | documented Soviet-deterrent framing | high |
| East | Northern Group of Forces (Rokossovsky) | 300–400k: 3 armies + air army · 4 TC→TD (Jul 1945) · 30 RD · 12 AD · 1 CC · 10 arty div | high |
| East | Polish People's Army | 440k by Sept; 1st Army south border, 2nd Army west border; 10 ID + 5 armd bde | high / medium list |
| East | ≈ Bornholm Soviet garrison | not swept | gap 6 |
3.3 Front 3 — Czechoslovakia–Austria–Hungary — DLC #2
Claim 1.14 — Western Bohemia. Pilsen taken 6 May 1945 by 16th Armored +
elements of 97th and 2nd Infantry Divisions — the last city taken by the US Army in the ETO. Occupation passed
V Corps → XXII Corps (~18,000, planned 26,000): two understrength divisions strung along ~266 miles of
the US/Soviet contact line. Last US soldiers out 1 December 1945, simultaneous with the Soviet
withdrawal by mutual agreement — in August 1945 this is a live, thin two-bloc contact front.
[high]
Claim 1.15 — Soviet side. Central Group of Forces created from the 1st
Ukrainian Front for Austria/Hungary (1945–55). The Vienna-offensive force (3rd Ukrainian Front, Tolbukhin) —
4th Guards Army, 9th Guards Army, 6th Guards Tank Army, 46th Army — is the standing southern mass; the Soviet
zone of Austria covered Burgenland, Lower Austria, Mühlviertel; Vienna quadripartite.
[high]
Claim 1.16 — The Czechoslovak army and the reassigned brigade. The
western-equipped 1st Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade (besieged Dunkirk; took the surrender of 15,500
Germans + three U-boats 9 May 1945) moved home 12–22 May 1945 on ~300 Canadian tank transporters, reached Prague
18 May — eight days behind Svoboda's Soviet-sponsored troops — and was absorbed into the Czechoslovak Army.
Deck consequence: at the Aug-1945 baseline this is a front-3 formation in Czechoslovak service with
British equipment, not a western exile deck. [high]
Claim 1.17 — Hungary. [carried] The armistice
army raised 2 of 8 obligated divisions; "Hungarian forces on the USSR side" remains a premise extrapolation
(arsenal §1.4 / Claim 4.4 ruling).
| Bloc | Formation | Note | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| West | US XXII Corps (~18,000; two understrength divisions) | 266-mile contact line, W. Bohemia; out 1 Dec 1945 | high |
| West | USFA (Clark): 3rd ID Salzburg sample; ~40k US in Austria | + 55k UK · 15k French (Vorarlberg/N. Tyrol from 9 Jul) | high |
| East | Central Group of Forces (ex-1st Ukrainian Front) | Austria/Hungary 1945–55 | high |
| East | 4th Gds Army · 9th Gds Army · 6th GTA · 46th Army | Vienna-offensive set; 6th GTA in Manchuria Aug 1945 | high |
| East | ≈ Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia (out 1 Dec 1945) | composition open (gap 3) | high / gap |
| local | Czechoslovak Army (incl. absorbed western Armoured Brigade) | British-kit brigade now front-3 | high |
| East | Hungarian armistice army: 2 of 8 divisions raised | premise extrapolation stands | carried |
3.4 Front 4 — Balkans–Adriatic — DLC #3
Claim 1.18 — Trieste / Venezia Giulia. Yugoslav 4th Army + Slovene 9th Corpus
entered Trieste 1 May 1945; 2nd New Zealand Division arrived the next day and took the 2,000-man German
garrison's surrender — "the first major confrontation of the Cold War." British XIII Corps moved to the
demarcation; the Morgan Line was signed at Duino 10 June 1945, Yugoslav withdrawal behind it by 12 June. US 88th
Infantry Division ("Blue Devils") stood the line (its 351st Infantry became TRUST in 1947).
[high]
Claim 1.19 — Yugoslav Army. Formalized from the NOVJ 1 March 1945; ~800,000
in four armies (1st–4th) + eight independent corps for the final offensive; demobilized to ~250,000–300,000 by
late 1945 with mass partisan reserves. [high aggregate] (division granularity — gap 10)
Claim 1.20 — Bulgaria. First Army (130,000 peak; 101,000 at the
Frühlingserwachen defense) fought through Hungary into Austria by April 1945; the Oct-1944 army: 1st/2nd/4th
Armies, 10 infantry + 1 guards + 2 cavalry divisions + 1 armored brigade. German-origin kit + Soviet trophy
deliveries [carried]. [high]
Claim 1.21 — Romania. First and Fourth Armies under 2nd Ukrainian Front
through the Prague Offensive. 1945 Fourth Army sample: 2nd Corps (Bucharest — Guard Division + 1st "Tudor
Vladimirescu" Volunteer Division), 7th Corps (Sibiu — 2nd ID + 2nd "Horea, Cloșca și Crișan" Volunteer
Division). Postwar: rapidly demobilized by the Soviets "save for loyal Communist formations" — the two
Soviet-raised volunteer divisions are the reliable core; armor seized March 1945
[carried]. [high]
Claim 1.22 — Greece. 4th Indian Division flew in from Italy Dec 1944 (III
Corps), concentrated north March 1945; garrison thinned to a division split Athens–Salonika + Military Mission.
Sources blur 4th Indian vs British 4th Infantry Division in the 1945–47 detail (gap 5).
[medium]
| Bloc | Formation | Note | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| West | US 88th Infantry Division (Morgan Line) | "Blue Devils"; later TRUST | high |
| West | 2nd New Zealand Division (Trieste) | took the German garrison surrender 2 May | high |
| West | British XIII Corps | to the demarcation line | high |
| West | Polish II Corps: 3rd Carpathian · 5th Kresowa · 2nd Warsaw Armd Bde | 110,000 — the exile mass (Italy) | high |
| West | UK Greece garrison (4th Indian / 4th British ID) | Athens–Salonika split — gap 5 | medium |
| East-aligned | Yugoslav Army: 1st–4th Armies + 8 indep. corps | ~800k → 250–300k by late 1945; behind Morgan Line from 12 Jun | high |
| East | Bulgarian First Army (130k peak) | 10 ID + 1 gds + 2 cav + 1 armd bde (Oct-44 frame); German-origin kit [carried] | high |
| East | Romanian 1st & 4th Armies | volunteer divisions reliable core; armor seized [carried]; rapid demob | high |
3.5 Front 5 — Scandinavia — DLC #4
Claim 1.23 — Norway. Operation Doomsday: 1st Airborne Division (~6,000) landed
near Oslo and Stavanger 9–11 May 1945 leading Force 134 (~30,000) to supervise the disarmament of
350,000+ German troops under Böhme (surrender instrument delivered 8 May). Panzer-Brigade
Norwegen's intact armor [carried] is the front-5 re-arm pool.
[high]
Claim 1.24 — Finnmark. Soviet forces (Petsamo–Kirkenes lineage, from Oct 1944)
withdrew from Norway only on 25 September 1945 — at the Aug-1945 baseline the USSR has troops on
Norwegian soil. [high]
| Bloc | Formation | Note | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| West | Force 134 (~30,000) led by 1st Airborne Division (~6,000) | supervising the German disarmament | high |
| West | 1st Parachute Brigade (Denmark) | see front 2 | high |
| custody | German Norway force: 350,000+ (Böhme) | incl. Panzer-Brigade Norwegen armor [carried] — re-arm pool | high |
| East | Soviet forces in Finnmark | withdrew 25 Sep 1945 — on Norwegian soil at baseline | high |
Inference (DRQ1): the five-front board is live everywhere in August 1945 — every front has both blocs in contact or short-march proximity (Bohemia and the Morgan Line are the hot edges; Norway has Soviet troops in-country). The approved front ladder is not a counterfactual map; it is the actual disposition. inference
Gate — DRQ1 Findings required
Accept the five-front order-of-battle findings (Claims 1.1–1.24 and the per-front tables) as the artifact's DRQ1 content, with the stated confidence caps and gaps?
4. DRQ2 — Division Anatomy (To&E → card classes)
All counts are schema inputs (DR-A4) discharging the arsenal's explicit To&E / per-division-card-count deferral (§4A gate record). Paper establishment vs field reality recorded where sources support it.
Claim 2.1 — US infantry division '45: ~14,000, triangular (3 regiments × 3
battalions), 4 artillery battalions (3×105mm + 1×155mm), engineers, cavalry recon troop; near-standing tank/TD/AAA
attachments made it a combined-arms team in practice. [high]
Claim 2.2 — US armored division (1943 light): 10,937; 3 tank battalions (3
medium + 1 light company each), 3 armored infantry battalions, 3 armored FA battalions, cavalry recon squadron;
fought task-organized as Combat Commands A/B/R. 2nd and 3rd Armored kept the older 1942 "heavy" two-regiment
organization [medium — gap 7n]. [high]
Claim 2.3 — UK armoured division: 14,964 all ranks; armoured brigade (3
regiments + motor battalion) + infantry brigade, fought as two combined-arms brigade groups; the Feb-1945
establishment (implemented May 1945) made the recce regiment a fourth armoured regiment and set 338
tanks (234 cruisers, 44 light, 28 AA, 9 OP). [high]
Claim 2.4 — UK infantry / airborne divisions: 18,347 all ranks; 3 brigades × 3
battalions; recce regiment; 72 × 25-pdr; AT + AA regiments; Vickers MG battalion. Airborne: 2 parachute brigades
+ 1 airlanding brigade, airlanding artillery. [high]
Claim 2.5 — Soviet rifle / Guards rifle divisions: 9,435 authorized vs
10,670 Guards; Guards received an organic SU-76 battalion replacing towed AT in December 1944
(standard divisions only post-war); non-Guards field strength ran well below shtat while Guards were kept fuller.
Rifle corps frame: 3 RDs + artillery brigade (Guards) or regiment + SP regiment + guards mortar regiment + AA,
sapper, signal battalions. [high]
Claim 2.6 — Soviet tank / mechanized corps (the DR-A1 division-scale anchors):
tank corps = 3 tank brigades (shtat 010/500: 65 tanks each) + motorized rifle brigade ≈ 168 tanks but
~13 rifle companies and 24 field guns, plus heavy/medium/light SP regiments (1944 shtat). Mechanized
corps = 3 mech brigades + 1 tank brigade ≈ 175+ tanks with 33 rifle companies. Most tank corps
converted to tank divisions 1945–46. [high]
Claim 2.7 — Soviet breakthrough artillery division: ~356 guns/mortars in six
brigades (M43 pattern incl. heavy + super-heavy howitzer brigades) — massed fire at the critical stage.
[high]
Claim 2.8 — German 1945 patterns (re-form templates under F-A4):
Volksgrenadier — 3 regiments × 2 battalions (6 line battalions vs the classic 9), 4-battalion artillery
regiment, ~10,000 at establishment (battalion 642, company 119, StG 44-heavy). Infanterie-Division 45: the
universal reorganization target, ~11,500, near-identical to VG. Panzer-Division 45: panzer regiment cut to one
hybrid panzer battalion + one panzergrenadier battalion — 1:5 panzer:panzergrenadier.
[high]
Claim 2.9 — France: 2e DB as the template — US-style armoured division,
14,454 personnel, 3 tank regiments + mechanized infantry, ~250 US-pattern AFVs; colonial-troop texture (3,600
Moroccans/Algerians, ~350 Spanish Republicans in 2e DB alone). [high]
| Faction · division type | Strength (estab.) | Maneuver elements | Proportion signal for deck slots |
|---|---|---|---|
| US infantry division '45 | ~14,000 | 9 inf bns + 4 arty bns + recon troop + engineers; near-standing attachments | full card spread; strong artillery + attachment flexibility |
| US armored division (1943 light) | 10,937 | 3 tank bns + 3 AIB + 3 AFA bns + cav recon sqn; CCA/CCB/CCR | tank-heavy, infantry-lean; task-group deployment |
| US armored division (1942 heavy: 2nd, 3rd) | larger | 2 armored regiments | extra tank availability — identity hook [medium] |
| UK armoured division (Feb '45 estab.) | 14,964 | 4 armd regts (338 tanks: 234 cruiser / 44 lt / 28 AA / 9 OP) + motor bn + inf bde | tank cards paired with infantry (brigade-group teams) |
| UK infantry division | 18,347 | 9 inf bns + recce regt + MG bn | 72 × 25-pdr — the artillery-density benchmark |
| UK airborne division | — | 2 para bdes + 1 airlanding bde | elite infantry spread, light artillery |
| Soviet rifle division | 9,435 (field: lower) | 3 rifle regiments | thin support; corps assets top up |
| Soviet Guards rifle division | 10,670 | 3 rifle regts + organic SU-76 bn (Dec 1944) | fuller manning + organic assault guns — the premium infantry deck |
| Soviet tank corps (≈ armd div) | — | 3 tank bdes (65 ea.) + MRB + SP regiments | ~168 tanks vs 13 rifle cos — extreme tank skew |
| Soviet mech corps (≈ mech div) | — | 3 mech bdes + 1 tank bde | 175+ tanks with 33 rifle cos — the balanced mobile deck |
| Soviet breakthrough artillery division | — | 6 brigades | ~356 tubes — off-map/support card mass |
| Volksgrenadier division | ~10,000 | 3 regts × 2 bns (6 line bns) | StG 44-heavy squads, short infantry roster |
| Infanterie-Division 45 | ~11,500 | VG-pattern | the re-form default template |
| Panzer-Division 45 | reduced | pz regt = 1 mixed pz bn + 1 pzgren bn | 1:5 panzer:pzgren — armor as scarce spine |
| French 2e DB (US pattern) | 14,454 | 3 tank regts + mech inf | US armored deck with colonial texture |
Card-class mapping (schema input): the accepted §4A taxonomy holds without amendment — every pattern decomposes into the accepted card classes plus arsenal §3 vehicle cards. What DRQ2 adds is proportion data: a tank-corps deck is tank-card-heavy with thin infantry availability; a mech-corps deck doubles the infantry slots; a VG deck gets 6 line-squad availability units vs 9 for a 1944-pattern US/UK infantry deck; a UK armoured deck pairs each tank card with an infantry card; Guards rifle decks carry the SU-76 card organically, standard rifle decks don't (in-window). inference, grounded in Claims 2.1–2.9
Gate — DRQ2 Findings required
Accept the To&E patterns and the card-class proportion mapping (Claims 2.1–2.9 + table) as the artifact's DRQ2 content — the schema inputs that discharge the arsenal To&E deferral?
5. DRQ3 — Deck-Worthy Named Divisions (per-faction shortlists)
WARNO-roster style: name · identity hook · roster clock (DRQ4) · equipment via arsenal §3 tiers [carried]. These are candidates with evidence — the actual game roster is the inserted follow-up cycle's job (route record, §1).
5.1 United States — the drawdown faction
| Division | Identity hook | Roster clock / fit | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Infantry Division | "The division that stays" — the only US combat division in occupied Germany into 1950 | long-campaign anchor | high |
| 2nd Armored "Hell on Wheels" | First US unit into Berlin (4 Jul); Potsdam honor guard; 1942 heavy organization | Pershing user [carried] | high |
| 3rd Armored "Spearhead" | Pershing / Super Pershing user | arsenal Claims 1.2 [carried] | carried |
| 82nd Airborne | "America's Guard of Honor" — Berlin garrison Aug–Nov 1945 | elite veterancy | high |
| 3rd Infantry Division | Salzburg occupation; most-decorated profile | Austria / front-3 fit | high (station) |
| 4th Armored Division | Third Army's spearhead legend | Constabulary base — the division that dissolves into police | high |
| 88th Infantry "Blue Devils" | The Morgan Line division | front 4's American face | high |
| 16th Armored · 97th · 2nd Infantry | The Pilsen set (front 3) | 97th doubles as a two-theater division | high |
| 86th Infantry Division | The other two-theater division (ETO → Pacific) | with 97th, ARQ4b rotation embodied | high |
5.2 UK / Commonwealth — the demobilization faction
| Division | Identity hook | Roster clock / fit | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7th Armoured "Desert Rats" | Berlin victory parade (21 Jul 1945, before Churchill) | Cromwell/Comet-era kit [carried] | high |
| 11th Armoured Division | The Comet division — premier late-war British armour | [carried] | carried/high |
| Guards Division (ex-Guards Armoured) | "Farewell to Armour" 9 Jun; infantry from 12 Jun 1945 | a deck whose armor is conditional — re-armouring as campaign lever | high |
| 3rd · 5th · 15th (Scottish) Infantry | BAOR's standing infantry set at formation | high | |
| 6th Airborne Division | Imperial Strategic Reserve | to Palestine from 15 Sep 1945 — leaves unless the war holds it | high |
| 1st Airborne Division | Norway (front 5) | disbanded 15 Nov 1945 — early-window deck with hard expiry | high |
| 3rd Canadian Division (CAOF) | The Canadian deck | repatriation mirrors the US points story | high |
| 2nd New Zealand Division | Trieste | front 4's Commonwealth face | high |
| 4th Indian Division | Greece; mountain/colonial veterancy texture | station granularity gap 5 | medium |
| 52nd (Lowland) Division | The relief formation (May 1946 in history) | late-window arrival card | high |
5.3 USSR — the consolidation faction
| Formation | Identity hook | Roster clock / fit | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8th Guards Army divisions (Chuikov) | Stalingrad→Berlin; took Berlin's surrender 2 May 1945 | the Guards rifle deck archetype (organic SU-76) | high |
| 2nd Guards Tank Army | First into Berlin; paraded the 52 IS-3s 7 Sep 1945 [carried] | the IS-3 shock deck | high + carried |
| 1st Guards Tank Army (Katukov) | "Arguably the most famous" tank army; Berlin encirclement partner | high | |
| 3rd Shock Army | Reichstag association; Magdeburg garrison | Reichstag identity medium this sweep | high/medium |
| 4th Gds TC "Kantemirovskaya" | Order of Lenin (Kraków); >20,000 individual awards; Don→Prague | the named corps→division conversion example | high |
| 2nd Gds Tatsinskaya TC | The Tatsinskaya raid legend | deep-raid / forward-detachment flavor | high |
| 6th Guards Tank Army | Vienna, then the Manchurian lightning march (Aug 1945) | the Soviet mirror of US two-theater pressure — in the Far East at baseline | high |
| 4th Gds Army · 9th Gds Army | The Vienna-offensive southern set | 9th Gds ex-airborne character unverified (gap 8) | high/medium |
| 1st Gds Breakthrough Artillery Division | 356 tubes; Berlin/Prague fire plans | the fire-plan deck anchor | high |
5.4 Poland (People's Army) · Western exiles · Re-armed Germans · Satellites
| Faction | Candidates & evidence | Conf. |
|---|---|---|
| Polish People's Army (growth faction) | 1st Army (inside GSOFG, Berlin lineage) · 2nd Army (western border); 10 infantry divisions + 5 armoured brigades; 1st Warsaw Armoured Brigade armor mass [carried]. Soviet-pattern To&E, Polish identity — the satellite faction with real armored weight. | high / medium list |
| Polish II Corps (Anders) | 110,000 by end 1945; 3rd Carpathian Rifle + 5th Kresowa Infantry Divisions + 2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade (1944–45 reorganization added a brigade to each division). Front 4's exile mass; the emotional spotlight. | high |
| 1st Polish Armoured Division (Maczek) | Took Wilhelmshaven's capitulation (10+ infantry divisions, East Frisian fleet); Emsland occupation with 1st Indep. Parachute Brigade; the Haren/"Maczków" enclave 1945–47; most soldiers refused return. PAFW total: 195k war's end → 228k July 1945. | high |
| Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade | Reassigned by the evidence: absorbed into the Czechoslovak Army May 1945 — at baseline a front-3 formation with British kit, not a western exile deck (Claim 1.16). | high |
| Re-armed Germans (premise faction, F-A4 at full force) | The Unthinkable 10 [carried] — explicitly not re-equippable by 1 Jul 1945, the re-arm lag is historical. Custody machinery (new): SEP/DEF status kept formations administratively intact (4.2M of 7.6M prisoners by 22 Jun 1945 were post-capitulation SEP/DEF); Montgomery defended German military administrative staffs at the Dec 1945 Control Council against Soviet protests — the re-form skeleton existed and the Soviets were complaining about it. Templates: Infanterie-Division 45 / VG / Panzer-Division 45 (Claim 2.8); Norway force = front-5 pool. Equipment scale still capped medium by arsenal gap 1. POW-remobilized framing, never Wehrmacht romanticism. | high (org) / medium (scale) |
| Satellites | Bulgarian First Army (130k, German-origin kit [carried]) · Romanian 1st/4th Armies — volunteer divisions (Tudor Vladimirescu, Horea-Cloșca-Crișan) as the reliable core · Hungarian contingent stays an extrapolation [carried] · Yugoslav 1st–4th Armies as front-4 mass (800k → 250–300k). | high / carried |
Gate — DRQ3 Findings required
Accept the per-faction deck-candidate shortlists (incl. the Czechoslovak-brigade reassignment and the re-armed-German custody evidence under the gap-1 cap) as the artifact's DRQ3 content?
6. DRQ4 — Roster Dynamics 1945–46 (the campaign clock)
6.1 Claims
Claim 4.1 — US points triage: ASR threshold 85 (12 May 1945), lowered to 50 by
late 1945; in September 1945 every ETO unit became a redeployment force (high scores, home), liquidation force
(60–79 points), or occupation force (low scores + volunteers). Army: 8M (1945) → 684,000 (1 Jul 1947).
[high]
Claim 4.2 — The Pacific rotation in motion (deepens ARQ4b [carried]): 400,000
to sail direct Europe→Pacific + 800,000 via the US; by 25 August 1945, 155,000 had moved direct and 886,000 had
reached US ports. Named two-theater divisions: 86th Infantry (left Le Havre 17 Jun, sailed San Francisco 24 Aug
1945), 97th Infantry (left 16 Jun, sailed 1 Sep) — both reached the Philippines/Japan post-fighting. First Army
HQ Downfall-bound; 13 infantry + 2 armored divisions Category-II earmarked [carried].
[high]
Claim 4.3 — The occupation end-state forms early: Eisenhower announced the
38,000-man Constabulary 18 October 1945; Harmon appointed 10 January 1946; operational 1 July 1946 (3 brigades,
9 regiments, 27 squadrons) built from 4th Armored Division + seven cavalry groups, policing 43,000 sq mi / 16M
Germans. End-state: 1st Infantry Division + Constabulary. [high]
Claim 4.4 — Soviet demobilization and consolidation: war's-end strength
11,365,000; demob law 23 June 1945 (born 1893–1905 first); → ~2.8M by 1948 (ground forces 9.8M → 2.4M) via 33
military districts (→21 in 1946) + the groups of forces. In parallel: rifle corps/divisions disestablished from
29 May 1945; tank corps → tank divisions 1945–46 (NGF's four from July 1945); 2nd Shock leaves Jan 1946; 47th
Army disbands Feb 1946; Finnmark out 25 Sep 1945; Czechoslovakia out 1 Dec 1945. The Soviet board thins
but hardens — fewer, fuller formations. [high]
Claim 4.5 — UK release scheme: age-and-service number (age + months served),
releases from ~6 weeks after VE Day; 750,000 out by end 1945, doubling two months later; ~4.3M by 1947. Operation
Python separately repatriated long-overseas personnel (Far East, points by service + time overseas).
[high]
Claim 4.6 — UK formation changes, dated: Guards Armoured's "Farewell to
Armour" parade at Rotenburg 9 June 1945 (Montgomery took the salute); redesignated the infantry Guards Division
12 June 1945. [high]
Claim 4.7 — UK airborne: 1st Airborne home from Norway by late summer,
disbanded 15 November 1945 (cadre to 6th Airborne); 6th Airborne to Palestine as Imperial Strategic Reserve
(advance party 15 Sep 1945; division following Sep–Nov). [high]
Claim 4.8 — Canada / France / Poland: CAOF relieved 15 May 1946. France
created its ten announced divisions May 1945, partially outfitted — assembling, not drawing down. Polish People's
Army grew 370k→440k (Sep 1945); of ~250,000 Poles in the West, 105,000 returned, ~160,000 stayed (Polish
Resettlement Corps announced 22 May 1946, recruiting Sep 1946 — the exile wind-down clock).
[high]
Claim 4.9 — Romania: rapid Soviet-directed demobilization save loyal
Communist formations; 4th Army Command disbanded 5 June 1947. [high]
6.2 The timetable (who stays / leaves / arrives)
| When | West | East |
|---|---|---|
| May–Jun 1945 | Guards Armoured → infantry (12 Jun) · 86th/97th ID leave Le Havre (16–17 Jun) · points triage begins (85) | GSOFG/NGF/CGF stood up (29 May–10 Jun directives) · rifle-corps disestablishments begin (29 May) · demob law (23 Jun) |
| Jul–Aug 1945 (baseline) | 2nd Armd → Berlin (4 Jul) · 7th Armd parade (21 Jul) · 82nd AB relieves (2 Aug) · French zone Austria (9 Jul) · 155k to Pacific by 25 Aug | NGF tank corps → tank divisions (Jul) · 6th GTA fights in Manchuria (Aug) · IS-3 Berlin parade (7 Sep) [carried] |
| Sep–Dec 1945 | 6th AB → Palestine (15 Sep+) · points → 50 · Constabulary announced (18 Oct) · 1st AB disbanded (15 Nov) · 82nd AB out of Berlin (19 Nov) · US out of Czechoslovakia (1 Dec) | Finnmark evacuated (25 Sep) · Czechoslovakia evacuated (1 Dec) · Polish People's Army at 440k (Sep) |
| Jan–Jul 1946 | CAOF relieved by 52nd Lowland (15 May) · PRC announced (22 May) · Constabulary operational (1 Jul) | 2nd Shock leaves Germany (Jan) · 47th Army disbands (Feb) · drawdown toward 2.8M by 1948 · districts 33→21 |
Inference (DRQ4): the timetable hands the campaign a ready-made tension curve per faction — US decks degrade or leave on a points clock unless the war freezes it (the ARQ4b war-morale lever [carried]); UK decks lose named formations on dates; Soviet decks consolidate upward; the Polish People's Army is the one expanding roster; re-armed Germans are a mid-window unlock by the documented re-arm lag. inference
Gate — DRQ4 Findings required
Accept the roster-dynamics claims and timetable (Claims 4.1–4.9 + table) as the artifact's DRQ4 content?
7. DRQ5 — Deployment & Escalation Evidence (the punted ARQ5, research half)
7.1 Historical doctrine
Claim 5.1 — Soviet deep operations commit force as echelons: first echelon
(mass + firepower, breakthrough artillery at the critical stage) breaks the defense; fresh uncommitted mobile
reserves (tank/mech corps, second echelon) exploit into depth; forward detachments race ahead. The live
demonstration is in-window: 6th Guards Tank Army's forward detachments through the Grand Khingan, August 1945.
[high]
Claim 5.2 — Desant: infantry rode the tanks (T-34 official capacity 12)
within the first kilometer of the contact edge, assigned to specific tanks in advance and trained with the crews.
[high]
Claim 5.3 — The kampfgruppe was institutional, not exceptional: ad hoc
combined-arms taskings at every command level, the rule after Stalingrad through 1945 (VG kampfgruppen in the
Ardennes); hundreds documented. [high]
Claim 5.4 — Western task organization mirrors it structurally: US armored
divisions fought as Combat Commands A/B/R; UK armoured divisions as two brigade groups of paired
regiment–battalion teams — every faction's division historically deployed as task-built fractions committed
in sequence, not as a monolith. [high]
7.2 Genre mechanization E4 — calibration only, never service evidence
Claim 5.5 — SD2: A/B/C phases with per-phase activation points — heavier
material gated off the opening phases by deck design. [carried, verified in the arsenal
sweep]
Claim 5.6 — WARNO (verified this sweep — closes arsenal gap 7): battle phases
were dropped. Decks build from a division with 50 activation points; the division determines category slots and
costs; veterancy is chosen per card (leader aura +1); transport choice nests in the infantry card; platoon packs
group three slots called in together. The genre's own evolution: SD2 meters escalation by time-phases,
WARNO by economy only, CoH3 by battlegroup call-ins [carried].
[high]
Inference (DRQ5): history's escalation unit is the echelon/task group, not the calendar year — a division arrives as recon/forward detachment, then first echelon, then committed reserves. That maps onto an in-match A/B/C reading as commitment stages (matching the arsenal ARQ5 round-2 rework: "phases gate strength off the start, not by year") and leaves campaign-date material to the orthogonal era-band axis. This is the evidence base §9 builds on. inference
Gate — DRQ5 Findings required
Accept the deployment/escalation evidence (Claims 5.1–5.6 + inference) as the artifact's DRQ5 content — the research half of the punted ARQ5?
8. DRQ6 — Refit, Replacement & Veterancy Persistence (Pillar-1 inputs)
Claim 6.1 — US individual replacement system: "repple-depple" depots fed
individuals (not units) into divisions that never left the line; documented poor cohesion, rushed training,
psychological trauma of anonymous handling, elevated casualties among green replacements. The division persists;
its people churn. [high]
Claim 6.2 — Soviet cadre rebuilds: divisions destroyed and rebuilt around
surviving cadres repeatedly — 73rd Rifle Division formed five times 1930–late-1940s (destroyed Vyazma Oct 1941,
rebuilt Feb 1942); 42nd destroyed at Brest, disbanded and immediately re-formed Dec 1941; 301st rebuilt from a
Kiev-pocket cadre; 1st Rifle Division in its fourth formation by Dec 1943. Number and lineage persist; the
formation is periodically reborn. Guards divisions deliberately kept fuller (Claim 2.5).
[high]
Claim 6.3 — British cannibalization: the mid-1944 infantry manpower crisis
was met by disbanding formations to feed others — 59th (Staffordshire) Division progressively broken up from
August, formally disbanded 19 October 1944; RA/RAF personnel retrained as infantry. A formation's death keeps
its neighbors alive. [high]
Claim 6.4 — German reconstitution culture: shadow divisions existed purely as
rebuild frameworks (small staff, two weak regiments, one artillery battalion) merged into burned-out field
divisions; divisions destroyed after 1 Aug 1944 returned as Volksgrenadier divisions under their old numbers;
~50 burned-out divisions refit + ~30 new raised before the Ardennes. Identity survives destruction by doctrine.
[high]
Inference (DRQ6): "a division persists and evolves" had four distinct historical grammars — US (continuous body, churning blood), Soviet (phoenix cadre), British (triage between formations), German (doctrinal rebirth). Pillar-1 persistence mechanics can differentiate factions with historically honest refit rules instead of one universal reinforcement mechanic. inference
Gate — DRQ6 Findings required
Accept the four refit/replacement grammars (Claims 6.1–6.4 + inference) as the artifact's DRQ6 content — the Pillar-1 persistence inputs?
9. Phase/Deck-Construction Design Proposal gated design synthesis — DR-A5
Status: proposal only (wonder-framework precedent). It becomes a design rule of record only if
the gate below is answered
adopt; otherwise it is recorded in the artifact as a proposal. It
resolves the ARQ5 deferral's three questions — in-match deployment, campaign deck evolution, and the carried
era-band E0–E2 verdict — and respects the adopted §4B zone dial and one-wonder-slot. The user's deferral note
of record [carried]: "…determine how to split up how divisions should deploy
units over the course of the battle and how we construct decks over the course of a potentially short or long
term campaign."
9.1 In-match deployment bands (how a division deploys over a battle)
Three bands named for what divisions historically did (Claims 5.1–5.4), not for clock years:
| Band | Name | Content (evidence basis) |
|---|---|---|
| A | Vanguard | Recon, forward detachments, desant-configured tanks, light/engineer screens (the first-kilometer toolkit — Claims 5.1–5.2). Cheap, fast, information-buying. |
| B | Main Body | The first echelon — line squads, standard armor, towed guns, the division's working mass (Claim 5.1). |
| C | Commitment | Reserves and the breakthrough package — heavy armor, breakthrough-artillery strikes, elite/refit cards, and the adopted one-wonder-slot (Phase-C only, §4B). |
Each deck authors per-band availability counts WARNO/SD2-style (per-card quantity × veterancy trade-offs, Claim 5.6 / arsenal §4A.1). Mechanically a band is commitment, not a timer: advancing bands costs an explicit escalation action (build-order/resource gate per the approved deck-as-roster loop) — "the plan comes together" stays a player decision. design synthesis grounded in Claims 5.1–5.6
9.2 Era-band E0–E2 verdict: AMEND (recommended)
Keep the three campaign bands but redefine them from equipment-dates to roster states driven by the DRQ4 timetable: E0 = the Aug-1945 standing board (§3); E1 = the winter-45/spring-46 board after the documented departures/arrivals/conversions (§6.2) and re-arm completions; E2 = the mid-46 board (Constabulary-era West, consolidated Soviet divisions, reward-shelf material per arsenal §4). Equipment tiers stay the bands' content [carried]; the driver becomes who is on the roster. Alternatives available at the gate: adopt-as-carried (pure equipment bands) or replace (continuous timeline, no bands) — name either in notes.
9.3 Deck construction across a short or long campaign
- Short campaign: lock to one era-band (default E0). Decks are authored once from the division's To&E proportions (§4) + arsenal tiers; in-match bands A/B/C carry all escalation.
- Long campaign: the deck is a persistent roster evolving between battles on three
historically grounded dials:
- Veterancy persistence — surviving cards keep experience (Pillar 1).
- Refit culture (Claims 6.1–6.4) — each faction repairs losses its own way: US individual replacements dilute veterancy but never lose cards; Soviet decks can burn down and cadre-rebuild (card lost now, reborn stronger later); UK decks may disband a card to refill others; German decks rebuild destroyed cards under the old name at a cost.
- Roster events — the §6.2 timetable fires as campaign pressure (points departures, Pacific earmarks [carried ARQ4b], conversions like Guards Armoured, arrivals like 52nd Lowland), each a visible event the war's course can suspend or accelerate (the war-morale lever [carried]).
Token granularity, map representation, and campaign pacing remain campaign-design-pass property — untouched (non-goal). Glossary candidates from this proposal — deployment band, refit culture — are gated separately in §12.
Gate — Design Proposal required
What happens to the Phase/Deck-Construction proposal (9.1 bands · 9.2 era-band AMEND verdict · 9.3 short/long-campaign construction)?
10. Evidence Matrix & Completeness
| Finding | Evidence kind · date | Confidence | Feeds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five-front OOB, both blocs (Claims 1.1–1.24) | Encyclopedic + official-history captures · 2026-06-11 | High at army level; medium at named-division stations (gaps 1–5) | Canonical §per-front tables; the inserted roster cycle |
| Unthinkable mix 64/35/4/10 vs ~170 Soviet | Multi-source (Wikipedia, UK National Archives, globalsecurity) · 2026-06-11 | High — arsenal gap 8 upgraded | Premise framing; faction scale |
| GSOFG army set + HQ towns; NGF/CGF composition | Wikipedia fetch + searches · 2026-06-11 | High (division-level granularity open — gap 2) | Front 1–3 East OOB |
| To&E establishments per faction (Claims 2.1–2.9) | Establishment documents/encyclopedic (CGSC, bayonetstrength, battleorder, HyperWar) · 2026-06-11 | High (2nd/3rd AD heavy org medium — gap 7n) | §4A card-count schema inputs — arsenal deferral discharged |
| Named-division identities + dated events (DRQ3) | Division pages, museum/archive sources · 2026-06-11 | High (exceptions tagged inline) | Deck-candidate shortlists |
| Roster dynamics, dated (Claims 4.1–4.9) | Demob-policy + formation pages · 2026-06-11 | High | §6.2 timetable; era-band AMEND proposal |
| Escalation doctrine, 4 factions (Claims 5.1–5.4) | Doctrine literature + encyclopedic · 2026-06-11 | High | §9.1 deployment bands |
| WARNO deck mechanics (Claim 5.6) | E4 verification · 2026-06-11 | High — arsenal gap 7 closed | E4 calibration only |
| Four refit grammars (Claims 6.1–6.4) | Policy histories + division case studies · 2026-06-11 | High | §9.3 refit-culture dial; Pillar 1 |
Assumption register after research (DR-A1–A5)
| # | Assumption | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DR-A1 | Division = deck anchor; Soviet corps at division scale | Held and sharpened — tank corps ≈ 168-tank armored division, mech corps ≈ balanced mobile division (Claim 2.6); the 1945–46 corps→division conversions confirm the equivalence historically. |
| DR-A2 | All five fronts at equal full depth | Held — every front populated for both blocs (§3); Soviet division-level granularity inside groups is the main unevenness (gaps 2–3). |
| DR-A3 | Baseline = standing board ~Aug 1945 | Held and productive — the §6.2 timetable separates cleanly from the §3 board; no dated-snapshot need emerged. |
| DR-A4 | Feeds, does not author | Held — §4 proportions and §6.2 timetable are inputs; no schema/stats authored. |
| DR-A5 | Phase/deck proposal is gated design synthesis | Held — §9 marked proposal-only behind its own gate; everything else is research. |
Gate — Evidence Completeness required
Is the evidence base sufficient for the canonical artifact — given the exhaustive stopping rule was honored and the remaining gaps are registered (§13) rather than papered over?
11. Stage-3 Plan & Canonical Write
| Action | Path | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Write canonical | research/divisions-1945.md | From the packet, with this page's gate selections applied (incl. the design-proposal verdict and route record). |
| Archive + remove | research/_working/preliminary-divisions-1945-research.md → docs/history/archive/… | Packet replaced by the canonical artifact. |
| Convert | alignment/divisions-1945-omega-war.html | → confirmed with the full approval record. |
| Flip index | alignment/index.html | review → confirmed. |
| Append (if approved) | research/glossary.md | User-approved §12 terms only. |
| Tasks | tasks/*.md | None planned. |
| Then | route record | Start the inserted "proposed divisions and decks roster" cycle (its own Stage-1 scope page), before /game-genre-map. |
Gate — Canonical Write required
Approve writing canonical research/divisions-1945.md from this packet (with the verdicts above
applied) and executing the Stage-3 file set?
12. Glossary Additions
Approved terms are appended to research/glossary.md (flat mode) at Stage 3. Source:
divisions-1945. Neither candidate exists in the current glossary (checked 2026-06-11). Both arise
from the §9 proposal — if the proposal is recorded-only, approved terms are still appended (they describe the
artifact's vocabulary either way). Choose one option per term required.
| Term | Definition | Category | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| deployment band | The divisions study's in-match escalation reading: a deck deploys in three commitment stages — A Vanguard (recon/forward-detachment toolkit), B Main Body (first echelon), C Commitment (reserves, breakthrough package, the one wonder slot) — advanced by explicit player escalation, not a timer. Grounded in echelon doctrine, kampfgruppen, and combat-command practice; orthogonal to the campaign-availability era-bands. | domain | |
| refit culture | The faction-specific historical grammar for how a division absorbs losses and persists between battles — US individual replacement (the body persists, cohesion pays), Soviet cadre rebuild (the number is reborn around survivors), British cannibalization (formations disbanded to feed others), German reconstitution (destroyed divisions return under their old names). The divisions study's Pillar-1 input for faction-differentiated persistence mechanics. | domain |
13. Gaps Register
New gaps this sweep (recorded, not papered over):
- US Third/Seventh Army division-by-division station list, Aug 1945 — army/corps frame high; named-division sample medium. CMH "Order of Battle ETO" volumes identified as follow-up source.
- Soviet division-level granularity inside GSOFG/CGF armies — army level verified with HQ towns; division level open (kin of arsenal gap 4).
- Soviet formations in Czechoslovakia Aug–Dec 1945 — presence/withdrawal high, composition open.
- French First Army named-division set in Germany Aug 1945 — "10 divisions" aggregate high; names beyond 2e DB partial.
- Greece garrison detail — 4th Indian vs British 4th Infantry Division 1945 split; sources blur.
- Bornholm Soviet occupation (Denmark, front 5) — not swept.
- 2nd/3rd Armored "heavy" 1942 organization — common usage, not separately verified (7n).
- 9th Guards Army ex-airborne composition — not verified.
- Romanian/Bulgarian division-level OOB Aug 1945 — army/corps level only.
- Yugoslav army-by-army division lists post-March 1945 — aggregate only.
- Polish People's Army division list (10 ID + 5 armd bde) — single capture.
- GSOFG formation-date variance — 29 May directive vs 9 June establishment; both recorded, no roster impact.
- BAOR strength at formation (80,000) — single capture.
- Air armies per group of forces beyond 16th Air Army's existence — AR-A2-scope kin; composition open.
Arsenal gaps 1–16 where touched: gap 1 (German depot stocks) untouched — still caps re-armed German scale at medium (the custody/staff evidence strengthens organization, not equipment). Gap 4 partially narrowed (army-level Soviet in-theater granularity now in hand). Gap 7 closed (WARNO verified, Claim 5.6). Gap 8 closed (64/35/4/10 mix multi-sourced, Claim 1.2). Others untouched.
14. Search/Fetch Log (Stage 2, 2026-06-11, main session)
| Batch | Track · queries | Principal sources hit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | T1 West (4): US occupation OOB · BAOR formation · French First Army · USFA Austria | Wikipedia (BAOR, 21st AG, Allied-occupied Austria, French zone), usarmygermany.com, CMH ETO-OB index, austriainusa.org |
| 2 | T1 fronts 4–5 + Canada (4): Morgan Line/88th ID · Greece · Doomsday Norway/Denmark · CAOF | Wikipedia (Morgan Line, Trieste US Troops, Op. Doomsday, 3rd Cdn Div), 88thinfantrydivisionarchive.com, canada.ca, Parren PDF, soldiersfromthesky.co.uk |
| 3 | T2 Soviet (4): GSOFG · NGF/CGF · 2nd GTA/3rd Shock/8th Gds · Czechoslovakia/Finnmark withdrawals | Wikipedia (GSFG, NGF, CGF, army pages, Liberation of Finnmark), globalsecurity.org, coldwaroutpost.com, FRUS |
| 4 | T2 satellites (3 + fetch): Wikipedia GSFG fetch (army set + HQs) · Polish People's Army · Romania · Bulgaria/Yugoslavia | Wikipedia (PPA, 1st Polish Army, Fourth Army Romania, First Army Bulgaria, Yugoslav People's Army), Osprey |
| 5 | T3 exiles + custody (4): Polish II Corps · 1st Polish Armd/Maczków · Czechoslovak Armd Bde · SEP/DEF + Montgomery | Wikipedia (2nd Polish Corps, 1st Armd Div (Poland), 1st Cz. Indep. Armd Bde, Disarmed Enemy Forces), maczek.wirtualnemuzeum.org, FRUS d631 |
| 6 | T4 US/Soviet To&E (4): US ID '45 · US AD '43 · Soviet rifle/Guards shtat · tank/mech corps | CGSC collection, trailblazersww2.org, battleorder.org, Wikipedia (Guards unit, Rifle/Tank/Mech corps), niehorster.org, hgwdavie.com, bayonetstrength.uk |
| 7 | T4 UK/German/French (4): UK armd estab. · UK inf/airborne · VG + PzDiv 45 · 2e DB | Wikipedia (British armd formations, List of British divisions, Volksgrenadier, 2e DB), vickersmg.blog, nigelef.tripod.com, HyperWar, panzergrenadier.org |
| 8 | T5 named divisions (4): US Europe/Berlin · UK armoured trio/parade · Soviet guards corps · breakthrough arty div | Wikipedia (82nd AB, 2nd AD, 1st ID, Berlin Victory Parade, 4th Gds TD, 2nd Gds TC, 1st Gds Bkthr Arty Div), desertrats.org.uk, NAM, trumanlibrary.gov, tmg110 |
| 9 | T6 roster dynamics (4): ASR points · 86th/97th two-theater · UK release/Python · Soviet demob law + French rebuild | Wikipedia (ASRS, US/UK demobilization, 86th/97th ID, Soviet Army), nationalww2museum.org, codenames.info, soviethistory.msu.edu, cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr |
| 10 | T7 doctrine + E4 (4): forward detachments · kampfgruppe · WARNO mechanics · desant | Wikipedia (Deep operation, Kampfgruppe, Tank desant), AUSA LWP-14, Reagan Library, tankarchives.com, steamcommunity, pcinvasion |
| 11 | T8 refit (4): US replacement system · Soviet cadre rebuilds · 59th Staffordshire · German shadow/VG reconstitution | defensemedianetwork.com, Wikipedia (Replacement depot, division pages, 59th Div, List of German divisions), HyperWar |
| 12 | Specifics (4): USFET · Constabulary · Soviet Vienna armies · V-J redeployment halt | Wikipedia (ETOUSA, US Constabulary, Vienna offensive), history.army.mil, armyhistory.org, usace.army.mil |
| 13 | Verification (4): Eisenhower division count · Guards Armoured conversion · PAFW/PRC · Unthinkable mix | army.mil, Wikipedia (Guards Armd Div, PAFW, PRC, Op. Unthinkable), nationalarchives.gov.uk, IWM |
| 14 | Final (3) — granularity only, stopping rule met: XXII Corps Bohemia · 6th AB Palestine/1st AB disbandment · French zone Austria | militaryhistoryonline.com, Radio Prague Int'l, Wikipedia (6th AB in Palestine, 1st AB Div), FRUS |
Totals: 14 batches · 54 search queries · 1 verification fetch. No novel formation classes or evidence angles in batch 14 → exhaustive stopping rule honored.
15. Compile
Feedback-only YAML
Available as soon as any section-feedback control is set; gate questions need not be answered. A feedback-only YAML keeps the cycle in Stage 2 (packet + page revised, gates re-asked).
Final approval answers
Aggregates all 9 required gate questions + 2 glossary terms plus any section feedback. Enabled when every required question has a selection. A clean final YAML triggers Stage 3 (canonical write).
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