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This one was a bit odd. I had Germany giving some resources to top up Italy, including one oil. Nothing was amiss until the oil reorganization phase, when I noticed that Italy was getting not an on-map oil resource from Germany, but one of the saved oil points. Normally I check the production during the turn, just in case more convoys are needed, and I also find the Production Planner to be more co-operative prior to the End-of-Turn phases. As I understand the rules regarding lent oil, it is unavailable for reorganization until saved in the recipient nation. Regardless, I thought I might as well see what would happen if I burned it, so I did.

In the Final Production phase, Italy was not, as I thought it would be, short one resource. The program had replaced the spent oil with another to fulfill the Trade Agreement. Weirder still, Germany was not short any resources - nothing assigned to production had been pinched for Italy. In effect, Italy got to reorganize it's oil dependent units with German oil.

And here's the file from after

This is a bug. I think it is caused by Italy being able to use the German saved oil point for reorganisation. This is not according to the rules. If that gets fixed, than the second one will be gone too...

I don't think the use of oil for the re-org is a bug. The 2008 Errata allowed this and under Oil in RAC, the following appears:

Clarification: You can use your own oil or oil from a co-operating major power to organize your units. Communist and nationalist Chinese can use each other’s oil. Ships and aircraft at sea consume oil if reorganized, but they do not need to trace a path to the oil resource.

It was the first time it ever happened, so I was a bit weirded out by it.

Oops, it's been brought to my attention by one of the other beta testers that sharing oil between allies is not implemented.

IMHO I hope it never is, I detested that change.

So this thread has gone into the queue for the production fixes.