Rail logistic points use

[xor0]

Some people have said that rail points ending in a city with a truck station and railhead are distributed by the trucks over roads. Is this true? Using the traffic signals tool and logistics map buttons I can find no evidence of rail points being converted or distributed, or used at all (presumably used in the city to satisfy logistic needs there). If it is not true then how do rail points get used? Does it requite rail tracks to the front, therefore always changing?

[Henoch]

I was wondering the same. In my last game, I built railhead near the frontline and truck station in the same hex.
Here you can see the rail going into the hex:

Here the trucks going out from the hex

Here usage points are requested by front units from the road 4 hexes northeast from the above hex.

For me, it looks like somehow units received some supply this way. If there would be no sharing from rail to trucks they couldn't get anything as my SHQ is 52 hexes away north.
I'm curious about other people's experiences.

[Thrake]

You need to spam railheads indeed as the frontline moves forward. For that reason I mostly use truck logistics as it is flexible and does not require to build expensive rails and stations.

The main upside of rails is that the longer range allows to reduce the effect on refocusing so you can get up to 50 hex range with just one refocusing, trucks would require either 2 refocusing, or just 1 if using the truck AP extension asset... Well, it would be optimal up to 45ish hex I guess, but that's pretty close.

[Soar_Slitherine]

Logistics points are never converted into a different type. However, once placed on the map, truck and rail logistics points are completely interchangeable, so supply brought to the end of a rail line by train can be delivered the rest of the distance by any locally available truck LP just fine.

By default, rail stations can send only 10% of the available rail LP in a given direction. Sending the full amount requires a railhead or another rail station at the other end - the purpose of a railhead is to avoid the penalty.

Contrary to a common misunderstanding among the community, there are no special restrictions on the use of rail logistics points once they're placed on the map, the only restriction is on where they can be sent in the first place.

[xor0]

You need to spam railheads indeed as the frontline moves forward. For that reason I mostly use truck logistics as it is flexible and does not require to build expensive rails and stations.

The main upside of rails is that the longer range allows to reduce the effect on refocusing so you can get up to 50 hex range with just one refocusing, trucks would require either 2 refocusing, or just 1 if using the truck AP extension asset... Well, it would be optimal up to 45ish hex I guess, but that's pretty close.

Ah ok. Yeah they are good for instamoving units across the map, and keeping cities full of LP.

[xor0]

Logistics points are never converted into a different type. However, once placed on the map, truck and rail logistics points are completely interchangeable, so supply brought to the end of a rail line by train can be delivered the rest of the distance by any locally available truck LP just fine.

By default, rail stations can send only 10% of the available rail LP in a given direction. Sending the full amount requires a railhead or another rail station at the other end - the purpose of a railhead is to avoid the penalty.

Contrary to a common misunderstanding among the community, there are no special restrictions on the use of rail logistics points once they're placed on the map, the only restriction is on where they can be sent in the first place.

So it's true? Why don't I see it happening, in the tools or in the unsupplied units? The traffic signals tool only reports LP to units and assets that come from the 800 LP generated by each truck station. Rail LPs go between stations and railheads then are never reported again.

[Henoch]

The earlier answers are correct. I did a check and removed all irrelevant roads, I kept only rails and one road to the front line.

You can see that the 800 LPs contain supply for my units and they pick it from the road not from the hex where I've railhed. It will not be visible on the traffic light screen as it's not part of the same logistical chain. It's not important. What matters is that after trains deliver supply to Hex, it can flow further from Hex using any available logistical points provided by ( trucks, rails or even transport aircraft). I don't say I'm 100% sure but this is what it looks like.
More in this tutorial https://youtu.be/e80YZgnK_wg there is a chapter about rail logistics

[xor0]

The earlier answers are correct. I did a check and removed all irrelevant roads, I kept only rails and one road to the front line.

You can see that the 800 LPs contain supply for my units and they pick it from the road not from the hex where I've railhed. It will not be visible on the traffic light screen as it's not part of the same logistical chain. It's not important. What matters is that after trains deliver supply to Hex, it can flow further from Hex using any available logistical points provided by ( trucks, rails or even transport aircraft). I don't say I'm 100% sure but this is what it looks like.

Ah OK that looks good

[Thrake]

You need to spam railheads indeed as the frontline moves forward. For that reason I mostly use truck logistics as it is flexible and does not require to build expensive rails and stations.

The main upside of rails is that the longer range allows to reduce the effect on refocusing so you can get up to 50 hex range with just one refocusing, trucks would require either 2 refocusing, or just 1 if using the truck AP extension asset... Well, it would be optimal up to 45ish hex I guess, but that's pretty close.

Ah ok. Yeah they are good for instamoving units across the map, and keeping cities full of LP.

Troops are the main logistics consumers. Sometimes I build rails to supply a busy airport.