Supply Question

[Tom Grosv]

In my PBEM game (first time and great fun by the way) I had a LF and transport in Tyrrhenian Sea with no supply. However, I wasn't worried because in the next region, Central Med, I had loads of ships and in Malta a tonne of supplies and I checked I could supply my LF from Malta. However, in the German turn he attacked my LF and transport with a TB and my LF had to fight with an unsupplied penalty - why? Couldn't it grab one from Malta? Did it make any difference because he flew a Fighter over the Central Med on CAP?

[WanderingHead]

Supply must come from the unit's region or an adjacent region. Malta is not adjacent to the Tyrrhenian Sea.

One subtlety: the unit can really look in 4 classes of regions (i) it's region, (ii) an adjacent region, (iii) its starting region (if it is active player's unit), (iv) adjacent to its starting region (if it is active player's unit).

So, maybe if your fleet started the turn in the Central Med that would explain why you were able to supply from Malta in your experiment during your turn, but the fleet couldn't get supply from there in the following opponent's turn.

[Tom Grosv]

ORIGINAL: WanderingHead

Supply must come from the unit's region or an adjacent region. Malta is not adjacent to the Tyrrhenian Sea.

One subtlety: the unit can really look in 4 classes of regions (i) it's region, (ii) an adjacent region, (iii) its starting region (if it is active player's unit), (iv) adjacent to its starting region (if it is active player's unit).

So, maybe if your fleet started the turn in the Central Med that would explain why you were able to supply from Malta in your experiment during your turn, but the fleet couldn't get supply from there in the following opponent's turn.

No, there is a simpler explanation - I'm an idiot. I think I must have thought I could supply my LF in Tyrrhenian from Malta because I got the 'supply from Malta' text when I used the supply unit icon from the menu from the side of the screen. Of course, actually pressing your mouse button would show it doesn't work. Doh! Back to my PBEM for more hard earned lessons I'm sure.