ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
ORIGINAL: loki100
re damage repair, it keys off leader admin rolls (I think its admin), the vehicle reliability, supply. Think thats it, so there is no clear 'speed', but I think supply is important (going on the view that in 1941 I struggled to clear damaged tanks, come 1943 and they are a bit of a non-issue)
getting replacements is tricky. In part the active pool is most likely low (the hard wired, realistic, production issue), in part a tank has a fairly hefty load so not many get shifted along the train lines if they are stressed. You certainly need to be to the rear and at a depot with plenty of freight.
I realise no-one likes doing this (incl me) but in the end flipping it to the national reserve really does solve both problems. It will grab missing tanks and repair/swap out its damaged stock. The price is it returning at one of your NSS and having shed its CPP.
In both my games that have completed the 41-42 winter, I ended up with 2 Pzr divisions I simply couldn't get to repair, this solved it, but they were off for about 5 weeks.
Joel has said there is no bias as such vs tanks in the freight system, but there is generally a presumption against replacements (they are last after freight as fuel etc). So there maybe something lurking in the system (aka a bug) but if so its not obvious.
Thank you for your answer.
It looks to me over 2 turns the damage elements only went down on average about ~20-30% while still adding replacements.
Ya, I won't send my PZ Divisions to the Reserve. I would rather rail them to a NSS instead stopping at depots on the rails to the NSS if can't make it in one turn. Or what I have been thinking is like setting Kiev and Minsk up as level 4 depot to stockpile supply then send the PZ Divisions there instead for a try in my next game. Granted I will take a supply hit to the front in 41 but may be an alternative but that is just me "musing" over a solution.
Also, I had too many units in the Center asking for replacements at one time it looks like too. I have rectified that this turn cutting down on the call for replacements to units in the center to have more supply for units in general. At least that is what it looked like to me.
Here is another snippit from the manual for replacements
Good read
