Capturing ports

[pdstanbridge]

Forgive me if this has been addressed, I have looked at various threads/posts and not really seen an answer to this. In HOI3 if I want to encircle an attacking force, say the British Eighth Army in North Africa, I head to the ports and cut them off. In time they will run out of supply and I can then eat them up, for the most part anyway. It doesn't always work mind you, but it is an effective and realistic way of combating large scale naval invasions.

Due to the way supply/logistics will now be handled in HOI4, (at least how I think they will be handled) will I still be able to use this tactic?

 

[Beangg]

It was mentioned in the WWW that you need the ports to supply invading troops. It also seemed far faster to retreat from a port than a random patch of land.

 

[Devout]

The majority of supply into a state comes from the supply path (i.e. ports in this case). But some supply is generated by victory points and at the state level.

So bottom line is that the strategy is very effective for eliminating naval invasions, and for reducing effectiveness for large groups of units. But if there are a small number of units (i.e. 3 infantry divisions in Egypt), they will be unaffected since they can draw supplies locally.

 

[pdstanbridge]

Okay that's great actually, and probably more realistic. I must have misunderstood how the supply chain works in HOI4.