Quick Questions Thread

[Light4bettor]

oh ok i see, thanks much.

[ncc1701e]

Just to be sure I have correctly understood.

As Germans, I built a first supply depot in Baranovichi (priority 4) and a second in Minsk (priority 4).
The rail repair is on going and has not yet reached Baranovichi.

First question, is the space between the two depots good or too large? I have read somewhere a depot every 5 hexes. Perhaps I should have build something in Brest Litovsk?

Second question, once the rail line has reached Baranovichi, should I decrease the priority of the supply depot on the border, like the one in Biala Podlaska, to priority 3 to fill the next depot?

Thanks

[Jango32]

Feel free to build the depot in Brest-Litovsk and also in a named hex roughly halfway between Baranovichi and Brest-Litovsk. As for your other question, you have some divisions that are locked for the first few turns in Poland. Around turn 3 it would probably be a good idea to start a pulsing strategy in Poland with respect to the depots into Belarus.

[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.

[Teo41_ITA]

Replacement Panzer battalions

Are they historical units? I have been digging around but I cannot find any evidence of a "2nd Replacement Panzer Battalion" ever created within the Wehrmacht.

[Jango32]

Yes. See the whole ersatz battalion system for procuring and training replacements as part of the Replacement Army. For example Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 1 would provide infantry replacements for 1.Infanterie-Division.

The way they work in the game is not necessarily how they worked IRL, especially when you only get the replacement battalions for tanks, but the idea is accurate.

[Teo41_ITA]

Thank you Jango32. I also found in the manual a detailed explanation about those replacements. I got the idea and I might add additional replacement units in my OOB mod scenario (mainly for flak and artillery).

[ncc1701e]

Feel free to build the depot in Brest-Litovsk and also in a named hex roughly halfway between Baranovichi and Brest-Litovsk. As for your other question, you have some divisions that are locked for the first few turns in Poland. Around turn 3 it would probably be a good idea to start a pulsing strategy in Poland with respect to the depots into Belarus.

Thanks for your answer. Another linked question, I am withdrawing. Is it better to set a depot to priority 0 to empty it before leaving? Or, disbanding it is enough? Just want to retrieve the maximum of freight possible.

Thanks

[Jango32]

Never disband depots. Priority 1 is fine because it makes it eligible to receive freight that otherwise might have been lost coming from depots to the west.

[Light4bettor]

FBD question.

FBD 4 (AGN sector) has 1 "RAD Detachment" (36 labor squads) assigned to it.

While FBDs 3,2 (AGC sector), and FBD 1 (AGS sector)- each have 2 bigger "RAD Labor Groups" assigned to them (each Labor group has 72 labor squads).

So, FBD 4 with only 1 RAD detachment can do the same amount of Railroad conversion as the other FBDs, even though it has less RAD units (4th FBDs RAD detachment is only 1 unit and maybe a quarter of the size in terms labor squads as compared to the others).
Do FBDs require RADS inside them in order to function as rail conversion units, or can I pull RADs from the FBDs to increase my free RADs to convert rail, and the FBDs still do their rail conversion functions at 16 MP per turn?

[malyhin1517]

And you better try! And then you will see that the performance of your FBD will decrease significantly, and the cost of repairing railways in the hex will increase. This will be especially noticeable in winter. However, even if you remove all the railway repair units, your FBDs will still be able to repair the railway.

[Light4bettor]

Thanks for answering, by your logic-even if I don't touch anything, FBD 4 may have slightly less performance (in terms of MP cost to convert rail) than FBD 3,2,1- because its RAD size is smaller ( 1 "detachment" vs. 2 "labor groups"). But, I'm not sure of the thresholds for performance. For example, do you know what is the minimum FBD RAD size I can get away with before FBD performance starts to degrade? Of course, this question is assuming that your premise is correct.

[malyhin1517]

Thanks for answering, by your logic-even if I don't touch anything, FBD 4 may have slightly less performance (in terms of MP cost to convert rail) than FBD 3,2,1- because its RAD size is smaller ( 1 "detachment" vs. 2 "labor groups"). But, I'm not sure of the thresholds for performance. For example, do you know what is the minimum FBD RAD size I can get away with before FBD performance starts to degrade? Of course, this question is assuming that your premise is correct.

I constantly use this method to increase the amount of automatic railway repair. But usually I do it in the winter when the performance of the FBD drops a lot. I take all the repair units and leave only construction units in the FBD. At the same time, the FBD still repairs the railway, but much worse.

[ncc1701e]

Never disband depots. Priority 1 is fine because it makes it eligible to receive freight that otherwise might have been lost coming from depots to the west.

Thanks for the tip.

[Teo41_ITA]

When national morale is reduced, how many turns are needed until all units are affected? Does it depend on leader Morale's checks?

[Jango32]

It mostly depends on whether the unit is defeated in combat. It can take many turns until morale matches national morale otherwise in my experience.

[Leumas06]

How can I select the new deploy hex when I tansfer a unit from reserves to the map? I receive all the units on Moscu.

Thanks in advance.

[Zovs]

Find the new location on the map and right click on that hex and then select the following:

[Leumas06]

I already did that but when I select a unit to move to the map from reserves I don't see any options to select the Hex I wont to spawn.

[Zovs]

It will spawn the next turn (week), check your Reinforcement/Withdraw schedule to find them.