Supply Depots

[DEB]

Oops I did it again & posted my new thread in the Tec Area !
Anyone know how far away from a Supply Depot you can be and still get supply?
t's a min. 3 but definitley not 12 ( hexes ).

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[Rainbow7]

This is something I pulled up from last year. I'm not sure why you say minimum of three hexes. Although I can't remember the supply rules myself, this post would suggest that you have to be within three hexes.

How to work Supply - 3/29/2004 10:45:34 AM
by EricLarsen
Never let the computer handle supply is the most important thing to remember, or you'll end up with looted supply centers and lots of little supply wagons traveling hither and yon. If you park corps within 3 hexes of any supply depot they will automatically draw supply, 4 days for the French and 2 for the Austrians. You actually get an extra day if the divisions are already in supply. As long as that supply depot has supply it will automatically feed any corps within that 3-hex range.

The other important thing for supply is when you plan a long movement with combat coming up as well. Then you want more than the standard supply for a corps and you can "overstuff" corps with supply for those long marches into combat. You can send up to 300 supply to a corp, I usually opt for about 200-250, and make sure the corp is sitting so the supply catches up to it before marching off. The supply wagons lose supply as they travel but supply in a corp HQ does not suffer that supply depletion. In Full FOW I wait until I see the supply wagon reach the corp HQ before giving the corp HQ new march orders. By the time the orders arrive the supply gets sucked up into the corp HQ.

Another interesting way to supply corps is to use the independent supply option to supply a corp from a supply depot that is not the supply distribution center. You can send a corp orders to use independent supply from some depot and then switch it back to being able to receive supply from the supply center. This is good for corps way away from the supply center but near a supply depot.
Eric

[DEB]

Thanks for the info.

When I said minimum I knew that it worked at 3 hexes ( although admittedly this was from a source that was not nominated),
but I wondered if it might have worked at a greater distance. I also knew that it did not work at 12 hexes ( distance to the nominated Depot ).

Cheers.