A new (i don't think so) idea for supply

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There's also a thing to be remembered, which I didn't see even in WIR. A single rail line may supply a division great, but should have problems with 10. In WIR it didn't matter if partisans cut your rails to the front, but left one untouched, the one left would supply the entire German army just as well as 5 did before! So a cap to how much total supplies a province can pass through.

 

[javiermcabo]

There's also a thing to be remembered, which I didn't see even in WIR. A single rail line may supply a division great, but should have problems with 10. In WIR it didn't matter if partisans cut your rails to the front, but left one untouched, the one left would supply the entire German army just as well as 5 did before! So a cap to how much total supplies a province can pass through.

Good point.
This, in addition to the size of the provinces, makes useless trying to aproach the problem from a tactical view. We must think strategic if we don't want to write a million "yes, but..."

 

[Gwalcmai]

just increasing the amount of supplies the unit consumes i think is totally unrealistic, since historically for germany the problem was not actually producing more supplies but actually having a rail system that could take them to the front.

Depends on how you think about it. For example, the enormous amount of trucks used to supply the Afrika Korps cost masses of fuel and other supplies to operate. Unless the operating cost of the supply lines is independent from a unit's supply costs, having more supplies and fuel consumed to keep isolated units in working order sound like a decent abstraction.