Since going to 1.2 I've had games go longer than they ever did vs. the old do-nothing AI (and yay for that!) I've noticed something that I hadn't encountered before: playing as the CP, starting sometime around late 1916 or early 1917, after causing either a Russian or French surrender, the supply level of all CP hexes suddenly drops dramatically. Front-line hexes often go to 5% or less and even cities in Germany drop to no higher than 51%. Hexes Germany has always controlled, like those along the 1914 border with France, drop to about 25-30%. Ditto for the AH Empire. This makes it next to impossible to continue attacking the remaining continental enemies.
You can see the effects in the screenshot with Metz at 32% supply and the German units all stuck at low readiness.
This doesn't seem to happen with the TE - their units continue to attack with a readiness of 8 and 9 while all mine except new reinforcements are stuck at 0 through 5 or 6.
Has anyone else noticed this? Did it happen with earlier versions and I didn't notice it? And is it a bug or intentional? Is it a result of something going on with the CP economies? Is there any way to prevent it?
It seems rather ahistorical given what the Germans were able to do on the Western Front in 1918.
