economy issue

[HvMoltke]

Hi Folks

In my game I managed to attack Italy successfully and by this capture some raw material. I pressed on and Italy surrendered.
First,when I held a line Genoa- Florence I had 13 industry points available, which was right cause as the manual says under Capt/Avail " ..is two numbers, the number of raw material hexes in other countries controlled by the current nation...." . Okay, and when Italy surrenders I conquered the whole country or they pay reparation, anyway I have all the hexes available in this country. But..I get nothing at all, points drop back to 10 German industry points. Same happened with Russia but I didn`t realize it at that moment. This is strange. Why should you conquer a country then, just for victory points?
Can anybody fill me in?
Greetings from Munich
Hellmuth

[HvMoltke]

Hi Folks
I found another thread concerning my problem
tm.asp?m=1969112

Seems this is not fixed at all up to now.
Greetings
Hellmuth

[FrankHunter]

Right, you no longer gain any benefit from captured hexes when that nation surrenders and those raw material hexes remain within the borders of the defeated country.

The biggest advantage to conquering a country is the shortening of your line and the reduction of losses to your manpower and of course no longer having to spend industry points on buying arms and HQ refits for that front.  Which, depending on the country, should mean much greater savings than whatever your gain was from exploiting a few conquered resource hexes.

[HvMoltke]

Hi Frank
Thank you for clearifying this for me.
But there is an additional problem with Italy. In that case I loose the ability to open a new front to France, and that would be just great, or am I missing something.
Greetings
Hellmuth