ORIGINAL: Joel Billings
Having 23000 support squads in your pool does not mean you have 230,000 men sitting around in the pool. These pool elements are just the equipment for the squad, but not the manpower. You must get manpower from the pool to fill out this equipment and make an actual support squad. You only appear to have 80k men in airbases, so you've already mined the airbases of most of the ground personnel that you can take.
Yes, you have a manpower shortage, as most of your manpower is going to be going to the Eastern Front. This is just a normal state of affairs for the Western Front.
Thank you for clearing that up.
A last manpower question, how can one track all the manpower outgoings because the logistics phase report seems incomplete.
F.e. turn 15 I have 10k manpower production, the total pool increase 0.7k compared to turn 14, but only 4k goes out in replacements and only to the EF, the WF receives nil.
I seem to be missing 5k somewhere and these seem to be going out in undocumented reinforcements. See bottom of this post.
ORIGINAL: Joel Billings
As for the trucks, since you are playing with the EF option, those eastern depots are using trucks to satisfy the needs of the Eastern Front units.
Does this mean building some more depots closer to the Eastern map edge would be a good idea?
ORIGINAL: Joel Billings
If you have units that are sitting in refit on a national supply source, and not getting anything, the best thing is to provide us a save from just before the German logistics phase (the start of the prior player turn will probably be all you have in a game against the AI). This way we can look and see why the units in Frankfurt are not getting any manpower. The report of no manpower 100 is a little confusing for me as this implies there was no manpower in the 100 TOE phase, but your units there have only 45% of TOE so I'd expect they would be trying in earlier phases. It's always possible the East Front took 100% of manpower available, but given what I see this shouldn't be very likely. As you go into the winter, things should get better for you as the East Front can become more stable which lowers the replacement priorities for the EF units.
It's not just Frankfurt, Vienna as well. I have the saves immediately before the end of T13 and T14, the T14 one is attached
One big oddity is that on T14 (save in 3rd post) the 16th SS PzGren Div in Vienna is at 31TOE. On T15(save in 2nd post), it is at 89TOE, however, the supply details state "No manpower 100" and according to the logistics phase log I received 0 replacements in the West.
