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ORIGINAL: carlkay58

Some but not beyond normal. Do Super Depots save trucks? Yeah they probably do because you pull a lot of freight up to the last large railyard so less traffic, but you can see in my AAR I actually have some pretty short truck distances without using the Super Depots. That and the large railyards in AGN and AGC are pretty far back from the front lines. AGS has the large railyards (Kursk, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporozhe) are in the front lines.

What is your truck usage at if I can ask. I really haven't looked at much other than my 4 ongoing games and a few posts, lol. Because truck repair rate is horrid from what I have seen. Using the wrong strat, like I am using in one of my AAR's and German burns trucks like gas on fire.

Also, the strict “loss of CV in heavy snow, with possible checks for more” models what would otherwise be an outlier situation. Namely, that a bunch of men freezing to death in winter clothes, barely able to do more than huddle miserably in unheated holes or frozen steel tanks, with probably much larger portions of their force kept off the line and tucked into dug outs, huts, etc simply to stay alive rather than for tactical location, unable to mount effective patrols in the weather, barely able to communicate as runners collapse and get lost, radios break, and commanders and staffs struggle to ever meet to disseminate information below the division level...all that has to be modeled. NCOs carry oit fewer and fewer inspections, transitioning weakest first from leaders to miserable humans like their soldiers. Because it isn’t just “we lost six extra percent to wastage” it’s the psychological and tactical effect of that when you’re trying to live in sub zero temps in howling snowstorms in a piece of summer cloth.

And then, and then the goddamn Russians come and fight you, and the stug platoon that was the battalion reserve can’t start their engines to ever reach your position, and hans has been shitting himself with diarrhea while Michael can barely aim his MG because he lost two fingers to frostbite but hasn’t been pulled off the line, and no one can clear the jams quickly because their hands are covered in rags, while barrels are breaking and warping just from the sudden heat up because no one really expected THIS, and the commanders know they should be moving to see the situation and they will, but that burning human need to stay warm, to not face the bitter cold, weights their decisions to wait a few minutes more before heading to that position, before deciding that report really needs checking out, and it all adds up...

You can’t model that with “well, six percent wastage, and the rest fight like normal”

On turn 30 the truck usage is below. The repair pool is bad and I am looking forward to it starting to go down in the next month or two.