ORIGINAL: loki100
you really don't understand how it works in game
Incorrect, every time you write that, which is often.
ORIGINAL: loki100
you do plan logistics, you set depot priorities/HQ priorities, you make decisions about rail usage for non-logistic reasons.
Except of course the Heer had in reality no such control in 41, there authority started after freight arrived at a rail head and could not influence freight deliveries, which was determined by a different organisation the Heer had no control over, so in game the ability to influence freight to rail heads did not exist, the Heer authority was where the forward depots from the rail head where to be placed, and had only the Grosstruppen to move the freight to depots. This direct line efficiency did not exist in German logistics in 41.
ORIGINAL: loki100
The game doesn't have you ordering the movement of every wheel nut and shell casing. That follows the set routines around the areas where you have agency.
Actually the game is using a 21st century JIT logistics model not a ww2 one.
ORIGINAL: loki100
F2 tells you how much unused rail capacity (ie trains) is in a given railyard.
And if you add it all up and work out how many trains were used to move freight you can see exactly how inaccurate the game is as to total number of trains, a game based on trains as the basic building block for logistics not getting close to the number of trains is kinda important.
ORIGINAL: loki100
I think the fundamental problem is you seem to think you have control over part of the game that is not under your control (by design). But you have a lot of tools to influence the logistics system
Odd, thats exactly what the Heer thought was wrong with the German logistic system, that the Reich Ministry of Transport was moving the freight where it wanted to, so as to able to return with the resources Germany needed, not where the Heer needed it to be to fight with. QMG Marckes, who runs the GTR when he takes over the long range transport role in Russia with his Grosstransportraum cannot even get the Transportation Department included in co-coordinating the long range supply movements.
