ORIGINAL: moses
I would prefer your definition as "war material" over "transport space" although both are essentially correct. Transport space is a little more abstract then needed.
Well, just to be accurate, I think the term you're searching for there is "materiel." But no matter. We're still just playing with words, as the system still fails to convince.
So supply is basically anything until it is converted into something concrete like planes, pt boats, bombs for aircraft, unit replacements, or combat supply (food and ammo),etc. This definition helps explain the minor issue with captured and locally produced supply.
I see nothing "minor" about that aspect of play.
Its easy to accept that the supply brought in to a location is fully convertable to anything.
I find it rather difficult to accept. The easy
manner in which all this happens only worsens the case.
Presumably these things are planned in advance by the staffs and they know what they are likely to need.
That's a "presumption" which often fails in actual play.
Captured and locally produced supply is a little different. Out of the 20,000sp captured at Kendari and the 600 per day you get from the local economy you start producing zero's???? Main gun ammo for the big BB's????
Being able to use this supply in this way gives Japan a little extra help in the first couple months. Its not a huge issue and it pretty much goes away after the first months. But there it is.
A couple things that might help if anyones interested:
1.) Half of captured supply is immediately destroyed (or some other apropriate %).
2.) Allow the allied player some method to toggle off or disable production centers which are cut off. So you have fewer instances of bases being captured with huge stockpiles of supply. As a side benifit the allies could turn off oil production in some of the sites which currently get captured with HUGE oil and fuel stockpiles.
As I said several times this is a not a gamebreaker IMO and I am hapily playing the game as is. Just clarifying what the issue is and why it might merit some attention.
Right. You're just happily playing the game. Let's not make any waves. [8|]
