HardLuckYetAgain wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:01 pm
All the JU52 Transport missions pulling out a really nice Freight load for further movement of that freight the next turn. Let me know you comments.
After the first ten turns, great. Go for it. I do a little of this myself.
For the first ten turns, not so much a fan of it.
There are two logistical challenges weighing down the Axis player at the start of the '41 campaign. The first is getting more supplies to the units, which is always the case. Moving freight via the cupcake runs addresses that to some extent. The second is the vehicle burn rate, which is at it's most severe during the opening three months when the panzer spearheads are at their furthest distance from forward depots. The longer the haul, the greater rate at which you burn through vehicles. Below is an example.
Vehicles lost per turn that required repair NTTD Team Game Turns 2-17
-8304
-6406
-7007
-6551
-5431
-6328
-7223
-6232
-5852
-7725 (T11)
-5923
-4898
-4821
-4381
-1269
-1204
Here you can see that from turns 2-11, over 6k vehicles were added to the repair pool during eight of those turns. After turn 11, it was zero turns over 6k vehicles and indeed after turn 15 the losses were around 1.2k.
So the point here is you are losing a lot of vehicles in these initial turns, and the cupcake runs don't really help address that. So my preference if making short haul runs, is doing it to forward depots with an airfield so that not only do additional supplies move forward while at the same time reducing the vehicle burn rate.
I have upgraded both airfields to level 3(or still in the process of it upgrading). Did the upgrade to at least TRY and get OPS losses down. Seems my endevour to do that is still in "failure" mode on less OPS losses. I will continue to figure it out. BUT it does get that extra Freight out though and to me it is 100% worth it as Germany!
Yes PBEM gives you that benefit and worth it. 