So, playing as Germany, 2.4f beta patch SF. It's 1942, but having a devil of a time with the USA. I've taken out most of the allies except Canada, USA, NZ, and Australia. I've got three of the four VPs to make Canada surrender, but damned Winnipeg is so far away from everything it's a huge pain to deal with. Then Japan goes and DWs on the US, I get dragged in (despite being a limited war), and instead of just beating up Canada, I have to fight the US too.
So, I've done a pretty successful invasion of the US; I've taken Boston, NYC, and Norfolk as my main ports (as well as Halifax, St. John's, and Quebec in Canada). However, the game insists on routing all supply through Boston, which puts most of my units in constant danger of running out of supplies. Even if a unit is sitting in New York, it's still supplied through Boston. I've admittedly got a pretty big force, but it's still mighty irritating.
Here are my questions.
1) Does the fact that many of these are Italian expeditionary forces affect supply at all? (It is affecting my German units as well, so I doubt it, but I could be wrong.)
2) What determines which port a unit is supplied from? Is there something I could do to fix it (besides switch to arcade mode?)
3) A little digression, but why did I get dragged into Japan's DW if they called a limited war?
4) I'd heard a rumor that the USSR is hard coded to attack Germany by 1942 -- is this true?
This is kind of frustrating, because my superior, battle hardened units are getting brushed aside without much of a fight because they have no supply. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some screen shots that illustrate my problem:
Political map:
Proof I'm not crazy:
Supply map:
Infrastructure map:
So, I've done a pretty successful invasion of the US; I've taken Boston, NYC, and Norfolk as my main ports (as well as Halifax, St. John's, and Quebec in Canada). However, the game insists on routing all supply through Boston, which puts most of my units in constant danger of running out of supplies. Even if a unit is sitting in New York, it's still supplied through Boston. I've admittedly got a pretty big force, but it's still mighty irritating.
Here are my questions.
1) Does the fact that many of these are Italian expeditionary forces affect supply at all? (It is affecting my German units as well, so I doubt it, but I could be wrong.)
2) What determines which port a unit is supplied from? Is there something I could do to fix it (besides switch to arcade mode?)
3) A little digression, but why did I get dragged into Japan's DW if they called a limited war?
4) I'd heard a rumor that the USSR is hard coded to attack Germany by 1942 -- is this true?
This is kind of frustrating, because my superior, battle hardened units are getting brushed aside without much of a fight because they have no supply. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some screen shots that illustrate my problem:
Political map:
Proof I'm not crazy:
Supply map:
Infrastructure map:
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