Matrix Games

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ORIGINAL: elmo3

For some reason I'm not finding your game on the server. What Slitherine account names are you and your opponent using?

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ORIGINAL: elmo3

OK,got it. Probably won't have time to look at it today. We're getting snow here in the Northeast US and when I get done shoveling the kids will want to go sledding.

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ORIGINAL: Pelton
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Just let me know when its ok for me to do the current turn

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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

First off, the vehicle issue was only a scenario data issue. This was reported in the 43-45 campaignwhere some reinforcement units were not arriving with vehicles. As far as we could tell this problem does not exist in the 41-45 campaign where reinforcements arrive with vehicles.

As for the manpower, my guess is that since you are bouncing around at a low armaments level, this is causing inefficiences in the replacement system so you are not using as much manpower as you could. That's just a guess though. Other explanations are that high levels of activity prior to mud left you with large numbers of damaged elements which are now returning to the pool but being in mud, it's harder to get the replacements back to the front. There is so much going on in the system that you have to expect a certain amount of friction. Once your armaments go up, and clear weather returns I'd expect you would see the manpower pool drop.

As for the total numbers, check each country. My guess is you have a few allies with 0 armaments and lots of men, and some with lots of armaments and no men. With the Germans low on armaments, there won't be a lot of armaments given to the allies, and the allies don't give them to each other.

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ORIGINAL: Denniss

How many of this manpower is in the active pool? I bet a lot of it is in transfer pool.

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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

It's very hard to say what's going on. You should track it for a few turns and see how things progress. Lee should periodically grab a save from the server. Server games are tough becuase the best save is one from your opponent right before they end their turn so we can view a logistics phase in progress. Do you have many units in refit mode? Have you looked at the log phase report to get a sense of men coming and going during the phases?

As for the totals, did you look and confirm that the manpower and armaments are mostly from Allies that have one but not the other, or have mostly full strength units?

The numbers you are dealing with are still low enough that it could be just the friction in the system. If the numbers continue to grow in the active pool while not in mud then I'd start to worry.