Fiendix said:
I am not really sure that that is the cause - I have had ddays without the penalty in europe as the USA/UK and I was not linked to any friendly owned prowinces..
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I don't experience the problem when doing an amphibous attack....but that's only because units who do an Amphib attack are automaticaly assumed to be in supply for 1 week. I ALWAYS seem to get it when attacking out of a beachead if I'm not linked by land to a freindly owned province (never on defense though).
In your D-day scenerios you were still in supply after attacking out of the beachead? And you weren't linked to any liberated provinces by Land? (i.e you were invading Italy or some other axis owned territory exclusively)
What was different about your '39 scenerio then your '36 one?
Have you ever experienced the problem when you weren't relying on a convoy/beachead as a supply source?
There definately seems to me something buggy about how supply lines are traced from convoy/beachead supply sources.
As you said yourself, in your Japan situation if you reestablish a supply convoy to any controled province in China, the problem returns again. If you have no supply convoys to China then the problem does not occur (which means your troops in China MUST be drawing supply from some freindly owned province on the mainland, else they would be out of supply)
Anyway that's the only consistancies I can identify.
Is it possible that when being supplied out of a beachead troops will only draw 1 days (or hours) supply at a time and that when troops enter an enemy province to attack, they consider the province they are in as part of thier supply route to the beachead (and thus blocked because it is enemy territory)? That would explain why it occurs only on offense and never on defense. It would also explain why we might not see it on units that are supplied only from freindly land sources (because they always draw full supplies, and battles don't last longer then thier 2 week max supply capacity so we never see them run out). Anyway, just a thought.