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Some basic questions from a newbie. I have landed troops with supplies in GiliGili, but can no longer bring them new units via sea. If I take the island East of GiliGili will i be able to march West on hex?javascript:smilie(':(')
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In Lunga I was a bit late and the Japanese own it, I am in the hex East of the base, so i cant build an airfield. Lookin for a confirmation here, If i bring supplies to my base will they be transported to my fighting units in Lunga at 50% losjavascript:smilie('')
confusede (100-50=50..jungle hex)?
makes for a nice challenge.
EagleIV

Since no one has answered yet I'll try.

Gili Gili and the base east (Basilaki Island) are not connected by land. Use the F6 toggle to see that. Green means land connected, blue sea connected, white both connected, and red nothing connected. The hexside is blue which means no supply can flow to Gili Gili overland.

Taivu (east of Lunga) is land connected. The air base capacity of zero does not prohibit you from building one but makes it extremely expensive. According to the manual you are correct - 50% of supply would get through. However, I do not know at what pace. My experience has been - very littly automatically flows to adjacent land hexes each week. For example, I had a land unit of regiment size adjacent to a well supplied Lae but I had to continually use transport planes to keep the unit's supply at sufficient levels.

Hope this helps.

I've foudn that overland supply is basically non existant. Down a major road (australia only) troops will be supplied from the nearest base just enough. Along a track or path (like the ones on N.G. or Noumea) your units will have either barely enough to stay in the black, or a little less than they need. Over land, without a road, basically nothing gets through.
In all 3 cases, there is never enough supply getting through to contemplate building anything. Which is a prob because unloading supplies across the beach at Taivu will take forever, and will cost you lots under the air power from Lunga or Shortlands . . .

Do what I did. Evac. your troops, and come back in 18 months.