ORIGINAL: Alfred
BTW, what is the disagreement over?
This argument is over poor (from the Allied POV) movement rates out of the contested hex (up to 4 days) that left three Allied division behind. The Japanese attacked twice on the 2nd & 4th day and eventually forced a retreat of the undersupplied units with moderate casualties for the Allies. Ross says these units were marching in "reserve" mode and should have left the hex earlier.
In my opinion you can't call it a bug.
These (once) numbers in supply map suggest that not all hexes are equal in receiving supplies every day. At least IMHO the same portions of supplies are not received every day.
ORIGINAL: Alfred
Depends on the transport infrastructure. A poor one can see supply move only one day per week. The best will can have up to 4 deliveries per week. I'll crunch the numbers later.
That's exactly my point. No supplies flow in the same doses every day. That explains why there could be no supply flow or 2 (or even 3 days with a bad dice) in a row, expecially when there's already no HQ in a hex.
It's how the game works and always worked IMO.
ORIGINAL: Alfred
May be. Some supply may have been delivered and it was already consumed before you could see it.
Exactly. Supplies had been used marching out and are eaten by two Japanese attacks.
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That was about game mechanics. From the logical POV...
Besides I think the Allied LCUs in this sitiation even
should not receive much supplies through a river hexside in an enemy controlled hex. Because
there is something called ZOC (zone o control) manual p. 191. Does ZOC really has no impact on supply delivery?
How much supplies you think you SHOULD receive through a MAJOR river hexside in an ENEMY CONTROLLED HEX with 80 k troops almost surrounded (I had passed gros of my forces exactly through a hexside Allies entered in) with air raids bombing troops and bridges every day unopposed, preventing the swift movement? How many bridges are there IRL over NE of Patna (Gandaki River or Brahmaputra no matter...).
These troops had been isolated (
is Japanese controlled, all hex sides are red for two turns) and if the AI says "destination cannot be reached" then there's no valid supply path (
AI tells me I cannot reach the destination) although this sometimes can be a glitch 'cos sometimes it's enough the click some other part of the hex to "catch it". So maybe there's something more in the game inner mechanics that's important apart from the hexsides "all green"?
Trying to think about RL situation I find it perfectly understood there's a supply delivery cut if the LCUs are on the other side of the big river, under constant attacks, had been surrounded for some time and the bridgehead is destroyed with an unit that crossed the hexside annihilated.
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This is a copy of my questions in the tech part of the forum.
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Questions:
How exactly is the supply flow calculated?
Is it the same every turn in every hex with open/owned hexside?
Or different in a contested hex with both enemy's LCUs present?
Does it mean the supplies should arrive there every single turn in standard doses regardless of rivers, mountains etc.?
Explanation: Once upon a time (with patches 6m3 in 2012 or something...) there were numbers in hexes showing the supply amount flowing into every hex.
Those numbers diminished with miles or river blocks.
Today, when you position your map in a base hex and hit "5" you see only yellow dots.
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