Supply issue

[Sugar]

My opponent made good use of his strat. bomber and attacked Ar Rutbah, diminishing supply to 2. Allthough I took a huge effort to prepare, I failed for unkown reasons; allthough the italian HQ northeast of Amman provides 8 supply, Rommel 4 hexes further east doesn't get enough to provide more than (1)5. Did the supply rules change in V 1.14? My calculation resulted in (4)8.

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Situation before moving.

[Hubert Cater]

Hi Sugar,

Thanks for the report as it looks like there is a bug there, I'll correct this for the next update.

Hubert

[Sugar]

Thank you, Hubert!

[Hubert Cater]

It had to do with regular linking of HQs and some of the changes we made there in the last little while.

For example, when an HQ was determined valid for linking, it was based upon if there would be an increase in possible distribution supply. This skipped over those HQs that were at regular supply equal to 3 or 4 as their distribution value would be at 8 already, i.e. boosting their regular supply to 5 would not increase their distribution supply as it would already have been at 8.

But it was pointed out that by skipping over these, and keeping them at regular supply of 3, even if not increasing their distribution supply, they would not be able to Operate or Upgrade. By subsequently adding them into the linking logic and boosting their supply to 5, they are then marked as having been boosted and then cannot provide boosted distribution supply to other HQs, which is what is happening in your game in your above example.

This result is arguably worse so I'll modify the code so that if an HQ unit is at supply 3 or 4 and their regular supply is boosted to 5 but their distribution supply does not change, then they can still boost at least one other HQ, which would correct the issue you noticed above.

[Sugar]

Not a big deal anyway, I shot down the strat. the next turn. Thx again!