Oil Use and Upkeep Questions

[battlevonwar]

ago1000, Alvaro...Simply this for me!

Units on rail use less oil or in supply 9 level hex as far as upkeep? Or is it both...

[ago1000]

Units on rail, INF,MECH, ARMOR, AIR do not use oil for upkeep. Any unit, INF, MECH, ARMOR, AIR if it doesn't move or attack and is off rail and in supply will use 1/3 oil for upkeep.

[ago1000]

Going to add also, Naval units in port use 1/3 oil for upkeep. At sea they use their oil use, each subs 1 oil, each patrol group 2 oil,etc, for upkeep. Oil using units like Mech, Armor use oil when they move and attack. Armor for example uses 1 oil for movement (just once in a turn) and 2 oil for each attack it performs in a turn.

The German Armor unit depicted above has 9 OP points,

if its starts its turn on Rail it uses 0 for upkeep and can attack 9 times for 9x2 = 18 oil without movement.
if it starts on rail and moves and uses 2 OP points then it will have used 1 oil for movement and have 7 remaining to attack (14 oil use) --> Therefore 15 oil used this turn.
(Note: On average I may be able to attack twice, three times if its a real good day)
However if it starts it's turn in supply but off rail then it will have used 1/3 oil for upkeep and if it doesn't move it can attack 9 times and use 18 more oil. So in total 18 1/3 oil. So every third unit off rail will use 1 oil. Hope this helps.

Finally upkeep is the oil required by your military to have the basic functions. It is displayed on the production screen. That oil has already been used up, upkeep, that turn. When you attack you can see the stored oil values drop the amount specified for each unit.

Naval units use their oil use once per turn whether they attack or not. For example, a BB group at sea will use 4 oil no matter what it does.

Air units use 1 oil for movement and their oil use for their attack. (Similar to Mech,Armor).

These are my observations. I apologize in advance if I'm incorrect in any of these statements but this is what I've notice in game play. Very difficult to calculate because values are rounded down. Can't see the decimal values.

[AlvaroSousa]

That is correct. Normally you shouldnt be attacking with armor 9x in a turn. Usually it will be 2-3x in a turn and moving. you don't want to exhaust the unit.

[AlvaroSousa]

ORIGINAL: ago1000

Thanks Alvaro for taking the time.

Your welcome. I added more to the upkeep section in the manual notes. When the game's bugs are gone and all features are pretty settles I'll ask Matrix to redo the PDF with the edits.

[ago1000]

Quick Question: How do you add a unit on the map in the editor? I can add it to the build queue but not on the map.

[ago1000]

With lots of pics I hope. [8D] lol. The editor has also helped, thanks for providing that.