CONFEDERATE SUPPLY QUESTION

[XLegion]

I'm currently in a pbem game and I'm playing the Confederate player. I'm puzzled by my inability to either make fortifications or create depots. I understand that so much is required to 'feed the army' but when I take a look at the supply reports I get something like this. "199 supplies required for the troops" and 303 supplies on the map. I don't have any depots so doesn't that mean there should be at least 104 supplies left for forts and depots?? When I look at the supply number at the right side of the screen on the main map I see that it seems to corroborate the fact that 104 supplies are available. Yet, I can't build anything.

What am I not seeing?

[Capt Cliff]

Eventually you are going to run out of supply as the blockage tightens and your factories are over run. What time frame are we talking about? Try building forst early on when you are getting supply through the blockade. Atlanta is a big one to fortify. But eventually your army is going to be eating their shoes.

Are you building supply with your factories? Have you built more factories? I assume your doing all this but again the south's ecomony was based on shipping cotton to England and the northern states textile mills. Stop that and they get nothing.

[Mike Parker]

XLegion,
 
The only thing I can think of is are you certain you have cmd points left on your leaders?  Although I think it gives you a message to indicate you require a command point to build forts or depots if you have none.
 
I don't know why otherwise you cannot build forts or depots.  Can you give us exactly what is happening?

[XLegion]

It's late 1864 and I still have Richmond, Atlanta, Charleston etc... so the south is not totally over run yet. But like I mentioned my available supply is always greater than the supply being used by my armies. I cannot repair a single rail road and I have many of these destroyed all over the place. I realize that this can cut off supply to certain armies, but how can I repair them if I have an excess of supply and no repair capability?

[Joel Billings]

Send me a save and what you are trying to do and can't do and I'll have a look. Send to 2by3@2by3games.com.

[Mike Parker]

XLegion,
 
Your having a problem if you cannot repair railways, as that has always been just a matter of mashing the button in the infrastructure screen

[XLegion]

I forgot about the supply button at the top of the map that shows you where all of your supply units are located. I can see a problem now but I don't know how to fix it or how this problem started.

I see 304 supplies WEST of the Mississippi which is now closed by the Union. But why were all of the supplies produced there??? Why didn't the cities of Richmond, Atlanta, Charleston etc... produce supplies. How could the supplies get so high in the thinly populated area west of the Mississippi. Or is this even my problem? I still cant' fix one single rail line even with over 150 'spare' supplies.

[Mike Parker]

I'm not sure.  I wasn't aware that you needed to be able to trace a line of supply to the railway location to repair them.  One way to check to see if its because your available supply is all West of the Mississippi is ti try and build a fort somewhere West and see what your told.

[XLegion]

Good idea Mike. I will try that and see what happens. I have a feeling it WILL allow me to build.