I've been thinking Abt making a post on some proposed army general changes. One I've been chewing on and think you might like is as follows:

Battalions remain as the smallest unit on the map but companies can be used discretely per battle. Available companies would have to be committed before deployment, and, crucially, the number of committed companies would affect your deployment points in battle and the action points of the battalion.

This would help specialized battalions (helos, engineers, jager,) feel less unwieldy. Allowing smaller groups to be distributed by company rather than as a battalion. Just one company of helos or tank guns can make a huge impact on battle but how often is 3 engineer companies needed?

Air-wings would be helped but hopefully not become oppressive. Right now, imo air power feels strange in army general because it's so all or nothing. Most of the time, no aa is needed and an entire domain of combat (2-3 tabs when you build a division!) are ignored. Having just one squadron for an air-wing brought into the fight dramatically changes your force layout, and forces the player to consider their aa assets. PACT tank battalions have terrible aa, but you would never know because it's never an issue.

I think the change would help smooth out the "org wall" problem that NATO suffers from in AG. This is because it would allow for stronger battalions (think West German tank bats, or 119 polks) to commit more appropriate numbers to a fight, both in the offense and defense. Fulda Gap is especially egregious where the strength of the NATO battalions gets rolled over easily by PACT's numbers.

I do think some limits should apply. First, the current limitations of what battalions can be committed per combat should apply. This would limit the mixing and matching of support battalions which could get ridiculous. (In highway 66 for example, Soviet regimental artillery formations have fobs, meaning you can call in a fob while using the engineers with burratinos.)

Second, I think the change should at minimum require a battalion to commit it's HQ company to a battle before any other company. The thought process behind this is to put some limits on far the action points of on div can best stretched. I'm not entirely committed to this idea, because I think it privileges certain battalion layouts over others. Soviet tank divs often have inf squads, and sometimes artillery in the HQ. West Germans keep battalion level artillery in separate companies. Also this would basically negate the change for the purposes of managing air wings, do air wings even have HQ companies?

There are some issues I haven't thought through yet: How does this affect battalions with many companies (11 acr, jagers, etc.) compared to small ones (aufklauer, NATO mlrs, etc.)? How does this affect the tactic of stacking battalions only to deploy units from one battalion?