Quick Questions Thread

[gw15]

In the Unit Supply Detail window the last line has "no manpower" and sometimes it shows 0 but on other units it has a number there that can be 20...100.
What does that mean?

[gw15]

In the Unit Supply Detail window the last line has "no manpower" and sometimes it shows 0 but on other units it has a number there that can be 20...100.
What does that mean?

[FortTell]

In the Unit Supply Detail window the last line has "no manpower" and sometimes it shows 0 but on other units it has a number there that can be 20...100.
What does that mean?

It means the unit tried to get reinforcements but the manpower pool ran out sometime during the logistics phase, bigger number means later in the phase, I think?

[Wiedrock]

In the Unit Supply Detail window the last line has "no manpower" and sometimes it shows 0 but on other units it has a number there that can be 20...100.
What does that mean?

No freight, No trucks, No fuel, No supply, No manpower
The first time a unit does not receive freight due to one of these reasons, a number is placed next to the item.
The number is the supply sub-segment in which the lack of the item first occurred. For example, if in a sub-segment where the unit must have less than 30 percent of the needed item, the unit does not get anything because there was a lack of freight at available depots, then a 30 will be displayed next to ‘no freight’.
The no trucks message can also be received if the unit was trying to requisition vehicles but there were no trucks available in the pool to go to the unit.
Note there is a chance that the no trucks message may be misleadingly given when vehicles are not required for a delivery as this process only checks to see if there are vehicles in the pool and not whether they were needed at the point of a failure to deliver.

[Teo41_ITA]

Two questions about holding fortresses:
1) Which units are best suited for holding a fortress? Infantry divisions only? Infantry divisions and artillery battalions? HQs?

2) What happens to the units when a fortress is destroyed? Do they rout or do they surrender?

Thanks!

[Joel Billings]

Two questions about holding fortresses:
1) Which units are best suited for holding a fortress? Infantry divisions only? Infantry divisions and artillery battalions? HQs?

2) What happens to the units when a fortress is destroyed? Do they rout or do they surrender?

Thanks!

It depends on the terrain in the hex. If it's urban, than infantry will get good CV bonuses, and the fighting will generally be at closer range, which is good for infantry. If it's a port in a city or rough then there are still some bonuses for infantry. If a clear hex with a port, than there is no bonus for the infantry.

If the units are forced to retreat, I think they will retreat out of the city fort if there is a path to retreat to. If no path, and the units are isolated, they will surrender. If they are not isolated, they will rout, just like any unit that has no retreat path.

[Joel Billings]

August 1942, just took moscow but left with some questions

Do national supply sources still produce supply even though they are surrounded/pocketed? It didnt look like the fortress moscow was running low after weeks of constant fighting

Once a NSS depot is cut off so it can't connect with at least one other NSS, then it will cease to be an NSS. I'm pretty sure it's in the manual somewhere. You can move next to the NSS which has one impact, and you can cut it off, which as a bigger impact. In both cases I think the NSS will have the freight their reduced, but there's still a bunch there which will last for a while. If it's cut off, then the units will be isolated if they can't trace to a working NSS. That causes a major impact, although it can be mitigated by sufficient air transport flights into the pocket.

[malyhin1517]

Two questions about holding fortresses:
1) Which units are best suited for holding a fortress? Infantry divisions only? Infantry divisions and artillery battalions? HQs?

2) What happens to the units when a fortress is destroyed? Do they rout or do they surrender?

Thanks!

1. It is best to defend cities with infantry.
2. If the city is surrounded, then all units will be destroyed, including headquarters and all support units. If the city is not surrounded, then the units retreat.

[aMaschina]

When reviewing a combat:

Is there a way to tell which tank killed which tank or does it only say this kind of tank scored thise HE / AP hits and killed this many infantry?

[Teo41_ITA]

Why there are some elements with a green number in the CU TOE screen?

[Veterin]

Why there are some elements with a green number in the CU TOE screen?

I could be wrong but my understanding is when a substitute ground element is used instead of the proper TOE. It’s in the same category (ie medium tank), but there’s a shortage of the specific tank so another medium tank fills the role

[pookiebear]

Guys i dont understand is ...ive noticed that if u just move back and forth 1 hex in pending hexes
eventually the mp COST goes up (maybe something to do with fatigue but couldnt find it)
so from 1-1-1-1 eventually itl cost 2-2-2-2
in rear area this doesnt happen

anyone knows?

[Jango32]

Could you post a screenshot of this? I am unsure what you are referring to.

[pookiebear]

Could you post a screenshot of this? I am unsure what you are referring to.

https://i.ibb.co/xsJVDw6/hex-3.png

here u see it cost 1 mp for this move

https://i.ibb.co/Y7L6M4r/hex-4.png

then after i just moved it back and forth its more fatigued i guess? and now it cost 2 for the same move

this is turn 1 btw..maybe some rule ?

[Jango32]

On turn 1 there are special MP reduction rules for movement above Kovel. As a rule of thumb, with infantry units you'll get reduced MP costs until there's like 8 MPs left if they have attacked at any point. 31st infantry division has likely got its morale increased to 80 or above, so average road quality hexes now take 2 MPs instead of 3 to enter.

With these two taken into account, the costs are correct for 31st ID.

[pookiebear]

On turn 1 there are special MP reduction rules for movement above Kovel. As a rule of thumb, with infantry units you'll get reduced MP costs until there's like 8 MPs left if they have attacked at any point. 31st infantry division has likely got its morale increased to 80 or above, so average road quality hexes now take 2 MPs instead of 3 to enter.

With these two taken into account, the costs are correct for 31st ID.

TNX!

[56ajax]

Does anyone know why, when you create an Air Directive to bomb 2 airfields, it bombs one of them x 2 and the other is not bombed at all?

It used to happen occassionally in the past but seems to be more common under the current 39 beta.

Funny you should ask that question, 56ajax. In my very first AD it bombed 3 out of 4 airfields in the target area. It consistently missed one airfield. Raising the number of strikes made no difference. It was as if it didnt see the airfield, or hang on it thought it had already bombed it???

Then i noticed that the flight path to the target hex passed directly over the non bombed airfield so I changed the flight path to avoid the fly over, and presto, all 4 now get bombed.

Technically a defect? but the work around is so simple priority = 0.

[Leumas06]

I am noob and I delete one of the soviet fronts by mistake, the center one. There is any way to get it back?

Regards.

[Aurelian]

I am noob and I delete one of the soviet fronts by mistake, the center one. There is any way to get it back?

Regards.

No.

[Zovs]

I am noob and I delete one of the soviet fronts by mistake, the center one. There is any way to get it back?

Regards.

If your playing solo against the AI just go back a turn and don't do that. If its PBEM or MP then no.