Proposal - negative supply modifier for rail gauge difference

[wisecat]

USSR had different railway gauge than Europe (it is actually still so for Russia and most of ex-USSR territories).
Soviet railways had width of 1520 mm, Europe was on 1435 mm.
Thus any railway carriages crossing USSR border had to change bogies - of course this was true for each direction of crossing.

In RL history during the war USSR managed to either evacuate or disable much of its rolling stock thus denying its use to Germans. AFAIK Germans decided to change gauge in occupied territories instead of building extra bogies for their railcars. This contributed to their supply problems during Barbarossa. Later on, when Soviet armies advanced into Europe they also faced the problem of gauge difference.

So, what I propose is some sort of "crossing gauge-size borders" negative multiplier that will apply to supply flows between territories with different railway gauges - i.e. Europe-USSR, USSR-Europe, USSR-China etc.


This is the present situation on width of railway gauges

 

[shri]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/rail-other-logistics-matters.901077/

I had started this thread a while ago, please see and post it there. I didn't get much support back then.

 

[Porkman]

We've been fighting for a simulation of rails since HOI4 was announced.

You're entering a war that has already been lost.

 

[agus92]

We've been fighting for a simulation of rails since HOI4 was announced.

You're entering a war that has already been lost.

That's not the spirit! You (we, now, count me in) lost a battle, not the war.

 

[agus92]

Someday I'll do a scan on the forum with awesome suggestion related threads that saw little attention and post the links. It won't be that hard: half of them will be Porkman's

 

[Jmland]

TRP for HOI3 had a pretty good simulation for rails vs roads in it. Not sure how to simulate the different gages. Might have to be a series of scripted events, first one reducing infrastructure pass thru in a province/region (trigger being capturing entire region), second being given option to convert the rails (at some cost in something, civilian production????) Not sure if this would be the answer, but only thing I can think of right now.