Quick Questions - Quick Answers

[misterbean]

Yes, it takes a while for your supply network to respond, depending on how far from your capital they have to go and how many supplies get through. This is influenced by the 2 supply techs in the theory tab and the infra of your provinces. Just for the sake of being complete, here is how it works.

Supply travels from your capital through each province until it reaches the frontlines. In every province, a little bit it lost (this is supply tax). How much reaches the next province is the supply throughput. Partisans, revolt risk, dissent, infra, techs, number and types of units involved, generals with Logistics Wizard trait, all affect this. If you look at the supply mapmode, the colours are these:

green: plenty of "space"", no problems. The brighter the green, the better.
blue: surpluss of supplies.
brown: no supplies getting through. See above for possible causes.
any other colour: varying shades of bad to worse.

You can get a tooltip by hovering your mouse over a province in this mapmode.

In other words, let's say you have taken Korea from the Japanese and you want to sent supplies via convoy. These go from Nanjing to, let's say, Shanghai. Small distance, so not too much should be lost along the way. If you have the convoys assigned, then convoys will take them to Korea. From the Korean port, they will travel over land to the frontline. As you can see, if you're fighting on the other side of the Soviet Union, it might take a long time for supplies to catch up.

edited to add: if you are assigning ports manually, you will also have to assign the convoys and possibly escorts to the route.

 

[JimboOmega]

Two more questions, not related to supply!

1) I finally got GER moving, and they have DoW'd the SU. I'm in the Axis. I'm Nationalist China. I would like to join the war. What war goals should I use to maximize my gains? I definitely want the Baku oil fields (I've annexed Persia and would be invading through that front). I also want the metal/oil/energy around our border in Central asia.

2) I've also landed at the head of the suez canal, but it still seems impassable (I control both port provinces at the north, but not the rest). What provinces do I need to control to move through it? What provinces are necessary to block it?

 

[Ojf]

If I queue a production of 99 serial interceptor units, for example, will each unit of interceptors produced be the latest version, or will it only produce the interceptor variant that existed when I first started production? Ie if I queue up 99 serial interceptors in 1936, in 1940 will I still be producing interceptors that use 1936 technology, or 1940 technology(assuming that it's researched)?

 

[ThatStrategyGuy]

They'll use the technology available when it was first commissioned, so if you start queueing them up in 1936 it doesn't matter when they start or finish building, they will all 1936-level technology. This goes for all units I think

 

[misterbean]

They'll use the technology available when it was first commissioned, so if you start queueing them up in 1936 it doesn't matter when they start or finish building, they will all 1936-level technology. This goes for all units I think

That's the rule for everything you build. The only thing that isn't influenced by it, would be somethig that has no tech levels, like convoys.

 

[rommel7]

So I tried something different...

TFH. Germany VH 1936 start. I conquered/annexed Poland in the Summer of '36. Just accepted First Vienna and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia when England Guarantees Poland.

OK. But I conquered them 2 years ago.

I look on the map and a single province had switched back to Polish territory. A province I know I took and even stationed troops in for a time.

So my question: Is the Polish Guarantee hard-wired and the game will find some way to re-create Poland? What happens if I puppet instead of conquer Poland in 1936?

 

[Opanashc]

So my question: Is the Polish Guarantee hard-wired and the game will find some way to re-create Poland? What happens if I puppet instead of conquer Poland in 1936?

When you dismember Czechoslovakia, Poland gets 1 province of it, regardless if Poland exists or not.

 

[misterbean]

Opposing Forces seem a little...low...for the Soviets in '41, or am I imagining things? Take a look:

No Harm (not even in production) strikes me as odd. Low numbers of Arm. Add to that the unexpectedly light resistance in France. Did the AI fall asleep or something? What do the other experts think? I didn't look at OOB or position of anything; just went straight to this page of the ledger.

This is a post I made in my tutorial thread just now. Just wanted to make sure everything is as it should be.

 

[rommel7]

When you dismember Czechoslovakia, Poland gets 1 province of it, regardless if Poland exists or not.

Fair enough. Thanks.

 

[thexmassteam]

ust wanted to make sure everything is as it should be

Around 30 LArm and Arm divisions I guess, 6 full corps if square divisions.
The strange thing is repartition between Arm, Mot and support brigades
39 Arm (Larm/arm)
57 Mot
66 Support (Mot AA/AC/TD/Eng)
Maybe triangle divisions, so 39 Arm and 9 Mot, with Eng and 6 AC in Inf div? (or 18 Mot with only 1 Mot per div and 2 supports)

 

[Afganitia]

Vanilla version. How to finish a war with a faction? Already have all their victory poins, they are all in exile, so...

 

[Karmapowered]

1/ Open the game menu.
2/ Click on the "Return to main menu" button.
3/ You should be shown what kind of victory and points you've achieved on the report screen (<- screenshot time, important for bragging rights).
4/ Start another game, or with different strategical objectives.

or alternatively wait till 01/01/1948 (which is the latest date for the vanilla game, I believe), at which point the game automatically ends with the report screen.

 

[Afganitia]

Lol. No what I meant is:
January 1940, allies don't have a vp since october. They are at exile. To trigger checoslovaquia eventos, I need to be at peace, and I want them before the war with the reds. Is it posible to return to peace?

 

[Karmapowered]

I am having a hard time understanding the context of your question, so forgive me in advance if I am misunderstanding you.

Czechoslovakia = 1st Vienna award = normally happens around November '38 for GER

So I am going to assume that you're currently playing GER.

Once the Allies declare war on you (or you've declared on them), you can no longer return to peace without beating them (since it's a faction), which means conquering all their VP.

Are you sure you've done that ? Conquered POL, FRA, ENG, and whoever you attacked or joined the Allies on the way (DEN, HOL, BEL, GRE, YUG, USA, etc.)

If you really want the 1st Vienna event to fire, I would suggest starting a new game.

Please help me in trying to help you ^.^

 

[Afganitia]

Well, first thanks. Second:

I started at 1936 as Germany (in vanilla). I used two strategies: diplomacy route in LS (getting allies, increasing Allies thread), and IC building in production. In 1937 Nationalist China and Jap enter the war. Nationalist Spain enters the axis. Japan (Manchuko, and Philipines) enters the axis. I declare limited war on Poland at the start of 1938? (don't remember well; anyway, just after Austria annexation and strating all the events I could) to increase thread, beacuse that allowed me to invite to faction some other countries. Australia and Brazil enters the axis. I beat Poland in one month and I offer them peace for Danzig. In the middle of 1938 I declare again war in poland. I increase thread and Usa joins the axis. Portugal joins the axis. I conquer poland. I declare war on Luxembourg (and annex them) to prepare for the start of II world war. Romania joins the Comitern. Sadly and accidentaly, France and UK declares the war to me. II ww has started ahead of time in 1938.
I haven't done any troups (which most of them are in poland and sovietic frontier). I hold the line, Spain holds the line, Italy conquers France and its African colonies (except Metz, that is mine). France goes to exile. I declare war on Lithuania (annexed) and Denmark (joined allies in exile). It is already 1939. I get a hold in UK, with my navy (the only soldiers and tech I did in 1936-1939), UK islands fall in february 1939. I attack Ireland, which goes to exile in march to the allies. I help Spain and Portugal with Gibraltar. I annex Switzerland. I conquer UK colonies in Mediterranean Sea. I got a hold of Egypt. I declare war on Lethonia (in exile with the allies) and Estonia (annexed). UK surrenders and continue to fight, while I won the colonies in Africa with contact with egypt. I annex Arabia and occupy the english territories, as well as French Jordania. Italy finish Britain colonies in west Africa. USA land on everything of the allies in America (with the exception of continental labrador and Greenland). I invade India in the middle of 1939. I conquer it manually. Australia gets Malasia. USA the rest of allies islands in Oceania (except a Frech tiny unimportant island to the east). I go to Vietnam (which is french) and conquer it. It is october 1939. I conquer Guanxi Cliqué (or whatever) in december. I conquer Honk kong. The last allies VP. No ally witout government in exile. In diplomacy tab, allies has 0 VP. It is already march 1940. I conquered Nationalist China btw. 428 base IC, not bad for not attacking the balkans.

Why I want to stop the war? I have looked in the wikia the conditions to trigger the annextion of Czechoslovakia: I have all of them except one: to NOT be at war. So, before waging war with SU, I want a moment of peace. Then, I will also conquer the Balkans . Still, it still says that I'm at war with the allies. Which only have Iceland, Sri lanka, Madagascar and some islands and no VP. Do I have to conquer all of them?

 

[JimboOmega]

In diplomacy tab, allies has 0 VP

Diplomacy tab only shows one country at a time, not a whole faction. Have you tried looking at each member of the faction? Individually? I don't see you mentioning Nepal or the other himalayan minor (which are UK puppets iirc).

 

[misterbean]

Did you get all of their puppets as well? If one of their puppets survives, they all remain in exile.
Go to the diplo screen. Click on each of the Allies' flags in the top right of the screen. All of them should read "government in exile". Any that don't say that, have taken all the other cabinets in.

 

[Magnus Imperator Rex]

Japan cannot really invade the USSR through Siberia as they will eventually run out of supplies right ?

 

[Afganitia]

Their puppets are not parte of the allies. I am not at war with them, an I cannot declare war to them. And pretty sure the 5 countries are in exile.

 

[misterbean]

Their puppets are not parte of the allies. I am not at war with them, an I cannot declare war to them. And pretty sure the 5 countries are in exile.

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Using the noneutrality cheat, I DoWed the UK. That is all I did. I am at war with France, UK and their pupets. So you have to look at Iraq, Oman, Yemen, Bhutan and Nepal as well.