I've gotten the HOI3 bug again, and am running into something I haven't seen before.
As Italy in TFH, I conquered Yugoslavia and Greece, pushed the UK out of Eqypt and conquered Iraq. So far, so good. Now, I want to take my Iraq invasion force against Russia near Batumi. The plan was to invade Persia. That dies pretty quickly due to lack of supply. It would take approximately 1 year to build infrastructure to bolster the roads from Alexandria to Bagdad to level 4, maybe longer, and that's no guarantee that it would get enough supply there quickly enough.
My second idea was to simply walk through Turkey using the existing Transit Rights. I moved the army from Iraq across Turkey to the Russian Border. All units were at 0 Org and wouldn't recover. I ported a marine unit via navy to a German base in Odessa and successfully invaded Batumi. That was quickly thrown out as none of the troops on the border could do anything to contribute.
So, I started trying to figure out how supply worked for units in countries where I only had transit rights. So, I'll ask here. Does anyone have a good idea of how supply works across neutral countries?
Things I have noticed.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
As Italy in TFH, I conquered Yugoslavia and Greece, pushed the UK out of Eqypt and conquered Iraq. So far, so good. Now, I want to take my Iraq invasion force against Russia near Batumi. The plan was to invade Persia. That dies pretty quickly due to lack of supply. It would take approximately 1 year to build infrastructure to bolster the roads from Alexandria to Bagdad to level 4, maybe longer, and that's no guarantee that it would get enough supply there quickly enough.
My second idea was to simply walk through Turkey using the existing Transit Rights. I moved the army from Iraq across Turkey to the Russian Border. All units were at 0 Org and wouldn't recover. I ported a marine unit via navy to a German base in Odessa and successfully invaded Batumi. That was quickly thrown out as none of the troops on the border could do anything to contribute.
So, I started trying to figure out how supply worked for units in countries where I only had transit rights. So, I'll ask here. Does anyone have a good idea of how supply works across neutral countries?
Things I have noticed.
- The supply path seemed to follow the unit path across Turkey from iraq, but doesn't seem to maintain once the unit moves to another province.
- Both Supply Organization and Supply Transportation techs are at 1938 levels, learning 1940 levels. (It's early 1941).
- Supplemental air supply can't reach from Iraq to the border of Russia -- I'd need to research some range (Large Fuel Tank, probably 2 levels)
- I can't find a way to manually create a convoy to a neutral port. (to Trabzon, Turkey, for instance)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.