It's just smoke and mirrors. It took me a few minutes to see past the façade.
As you can see in the screenshot provided. Logistics elements does not actually move supplies from where they are produced, to where they are needed. Supply depots themselves spawn the supplies, on the sole condition that there is a railway and/or port connecting it to the nations capitol.
Ideally, the system would extract supply from victory points, cities and population centers. DETRACT from the available supply from whence it is procured, then move it to different parts of your nation via the available methods of Boat, Train and Truck. But this is not what they did.
What they did was plot down supply depots, made sure it looked reasonable. Then called it a day.
Case in point:
Screen 1: Constructing additional supply depots in the UK, will increase available supply.
Screen 2: This is just wonky. The air field within the New Guinea province. Is able to supply the 6.8 million men garrison, having no contact with the port. In fact, it does not have any contact with any source of supply.
Screen 3/4: Matrouh tiles have more supply than London
Screen 5: Not sure what is going on here. There is no supply depot in the inaccessible North Darfur province
Not screenshot. If you were to block the eastern Med sea. The whole theatre will be unable to receive any supplies from London. Even if you construct ports which can be accessed from the red sea, and connect them to the rail network, the game will simply refuse to recognize it as a valid path to the capitol.
I assume the air drop bug was always present in the game. But previous versions did not allow air dropping supplies from the same province you are trying to deliver to. The change to a tile based supply system, necessitated that this be switched on. Likely, the switch that allows this was simply flipped. It also does not work if there is literally no supply at all, 0.00, because then the airplanes will be stuck at 0.00% efficiency and cannot even begin to supply themselves with supplies from the airport they just took off from.
Truck usage is set to 0/25/50 per logistics depot. It doesn't matter how far the trucks have to go, how much supply is available, how much supply is requested or any other factors. It's nothing, 25 or 50. It's just odd that you can support the entire eastern front with fewer than 1000 trucks. When in reality, Germany fielded tens of thousands of trucks throughout the war while at the same time heavily relying on horse transports. It's hard to just write down proposals for in game, but it needs to increase by a factor of 5 to 15 for full 100% coverage on every single province. This is just a balance comment, the system appears to function as intended.
Screenshot 6: The Brittish air force is able to supply it's 456 Battleships in the port of Cairo using a fleet of transport aircraft. These are admittedly connected to the... very same port that they themselves supply. So presumably the cargo is offloaded at the port, transported by rail to the air port then flown over the Battleships and dropped on the decks.
Screenshot 7: This is how Alexandra is supplied January 1st 1936.
Screenshot 8: It's looking bleak for Germany and Paulus. Luckily for the 9 million encircled 6th Army. Goering's Luftwaffe will put a Turkey on every table.
As you can see in the screenshot provided. Logistics elements does not actually move supplies from where they are produced, to where they are needed. Supply depots themselves spawn the supplies, on the sole condition that there is a railway and/or port connecting it to the nations capitol.
Ideally, the system would extract supply from victory points, cities and population centers. DETRACT from the available supply from whence it is procured, then move it to different parts of your nation via the available methods of Boat, Train and Truck. But this is not what they did.
What they did was plot down supply depots, made sure it looked reasonable. Then called it a day.
Case in point:
Screen 1: Constructing additional supply depots in the UK, will increase available supply.
Screen 2: This is just wonky. The air field within the New Guinea province. Is able to supply the 6.8 million men garrison, having no contact with the port. In fact, it does not have any contact with any source of supply.
Screen 3/4: Matrouh tiles have more supply than London
Screen 5: Not sure what is going on here. There is no supply depot in the inaccessible North Darfur province
Not screenshot. If you were to block the eastern Med sea. The whole theatre will be unable to receive any supplies from London. Even if you construct ports which can be accessed from the red sea, and connect them to the rail network, the game will simply refuse to recognize it as a valid path to the capitol.
I assume the air drop bug was always present in the game. But previous versions did not allow air dropping supplies from the same province you are trying to deliver to. The change to a tile based supply system, necessitated that this be switched on. Likely, the switch that allows this was simply flipped. It also does not work if there is literally no supply at all, 0.00, because then the airplanes will be stuck at 0.00% efficiency and cannot even begin to supply themselves with supplies from the airport they just took off from.
Truck usage is set to 0/25/50 per logistics depot. It doesn't matter how far the trucks have to go, how much supply is available, how much supply is requested or any other factors. It's nothing, 25 or 50. It's just odd that you can support the entire eastern front with fewer than 1000 trucks. When in reality, Germany fielded tens of thousands of trucks throughout the war while at the same time heavily relying on horse transports. It's hard to just write down proposals for in game, but it needs to increase by a factor of 5 to 15 for full 100% coverage on every single province. This is just a balance comment, the system appears to function as intended.
Screenshot 6: The Brittish air force is able to supply it's 456 Battleships in the port of Cairo using a fleet of transport aircraft. These are admittedly connected to the... very same port that they themselves supply. So presumably the cargo is offloaded at the port, transported by rail to the air port then flown over the Battleships and dropped on the decks.
Screenshot 7: This is how Alexandra is supplied January 1st 1936.
Screenshot 8: It's looking bleak for Germany and Paulus. Luckily for the 9 million encircled 6th Army. Goering's Luftwaffe will put a Turkey on every table.
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