Supplying units with HQ Supply Dumps

[MechFO]

Reading the manual, my understanding is that units will try to draw their Supply Need + X from the HQ (in range). The HQ in turn will try to draw from the supply net. If it can't cover this, it will use some of it's dumps to make up the difference.

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My questions are,

how much supply do units actually try to draw?


How do they try to build up depleted unit stocks. I have Pz/Mot units near Kiev with an off-rail MP of 25, stationary for 3 turns, ample HQ dumps (150+S, 100+F), but hardly recovering any of their supply stockpile. Current needs are JUST being met with sometimes a small surplus going to unit stocks. The HQ is depleting it's Supply Dumps, but very slowly (150->100 in 3 turn).

Another example has adjacent Inf Divs with the same HQ, 190 S dumps, getting supply deliveries as divergent as 30 and 50. (Off rail MP 30)

Other Inf Divs, are getting up to a 100 tons per turn. (off rail MP 25), HQ with 250 S dumps.


I can't figure out where the divergent results are coming from.



if the HQ has to give up dumps, how does this work?

Are only a % of total dumps released per turn? As mentioned, I have HQ's with lots of dumps next to units who are not even having their turn needs filled and down to a 20% stockpile. How and when are these Dumps released? Can this be influenced? Rather than losing x number of trucks to move a HQ with hundreds of dumps while having adjacent units surviving by a thread, I'd rather have the unit receive extra supplies, but this doesn't seem to happen.



Any explanations would be welcome.

[bairdlander2]

I would like to add some questions to your post.If divs/btns etc draw there supply from corps hq's,I assume the corps draw from the higher hq's does the supply drawn from higher hq's just for the corps use or is it passed down.What is the distance corps need to be in order to get supply from higher hq's?Also is there a way to add vehicles to motor pool of units and lessen the vehicles in rear units?

[Repsol]

Helloo, Bairdlander...

The Corps HQ can NOT draw supply from any higher HQ...The only units that may draw supply from HQs are combat units, Airbases and construction units..

To increase the motorpool put units in the rear and quite areas in STATIC mode...That will free up some wehichles...I'm sure there are other things you
could do but i don't know about them yet...

[Zoetermeer]

I'm also wondering about this - why is it that a unit, being within range of its corps HQ, often will not draw enough fuel and/or supply even when the HQ has a large amount sitting in dumps? It seems more likely that a panzer corps HQ would distribute as much of the fuel/supply it has to subordinate units so they can continue, instead of accumulating them in dumps.