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ORIGINAL: FrankHunter

I was searching the posts from a year ago because I know I explained it but now of course I can't find it. In a nutshell, I gave every hex a supply rating. That rating is not for the supplies generated within the hex but how easy it is to move supplies through it. That number is based on terrain and although railroads aren't on the map, places I knew there were railroads. Plus overall infrastructure so northern France has better supply ratings than Serbia even given the same terrain.

Supply itself is generated in home country cities. All of which are rated for their supply. Berlin for example has a higher rating than Belgrade. Also ports that are receiving sea supply.

So how this works is let's say Belgrade has a supply rating of 150. All hexes around it thus have 150% supply modified by the hex's supply rating. Many of the hexes in Serbia have low ratings so supply level drops fast. A hex with a 50% rating next to Belgrade in the example would thus have a 75% supply level. If the next hex's rating was also 50% that supply level would drop to 37%. There's a railroad that runs down the centre of Serbia so hexes along that path have higher supply ratings which is why you get the effect that some hexes closer to cities actually have worse supply levels than some hexes further away. Its because those hexes lie along a path I knew there was a railway.

Supply from more than one city can affect a hex so essentially there's kind of a "web" effect where supply levels overlap. Cutting a hex off from a city may reduce some of its supply but not all if it can still trace a path to another friendly city.

The supply level of a hex a unit is sitting in is that unit's supply level. That is used when computing readiness recovery and depletion as well as whether to allow replacements to be added etc.

would the supply level of Warsaw drop below its intrinsic supply level?

1) when you say cut off, do you mean that they can't trace any path to each other

2) Re multiple supply sources (the supply web you referred to): if a hex can trace to multiple sources, will the supply level of a hex be the highest of those multiple sources or will it be increased above that because of the additional sources?

3) Re home country cities generating supply: do enemy cities you control provide any supply or affect supply in any way, or must you trace all the way to your home country cities?

4) Also, I assume allied nations all trace supply to the same sources, e.g. all CP supply sources are homogenous so that any CP unit can use any CP supply source?

ORIGINAL: FrankHunter.

Supply from more than one city can affect a hex so essentially there's kind of a "web" effect where supply levels overlap. Cutting a hex off from a city may reduce some of its supply but not all if it can still trace a path to another friendly city.

Is there anyway to improve supply? Specifically is there any way to up the supply level at Basra or in the middle east? How much would sea supply help forces in those areas?

I ask because I've essentially sliced off the Austrians at the Carpathians but their units in the fortresses won't die- worse they've gone on a rampage towards Warsaw. These units have been isolated from home for better than a year but are still not only alive but taking offensive actions. Here, City A and City B are "helping" each other but both really need help from some other city because both are out of supply.

ORIGINAL: FrankHunter

If you have a save I'll load it and look at the levels to make sure.