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Welcome to the next Tutorial! This one will hopefully give you some insights about the importance of supply, how it works, and how to maintain and keep your (L)ine (O)f (C)ommunication as well as (L)ine (O)f (S)upply open and/or intact. I decided this time to supplement it with extracts from the manual in the Tutorial '42 document; for easy accessible reference and less clutter of text snippets within the slides.

Klink, Oberst

OK. The 2nd slide. I will post the scenario and relevant files later on after the 1st few sets of slides, OK?

Klink, Oberst

A few more insights into the supply net etc...

Klink, Oberst

The latest situation on the repair front...

Klink, Oberst

Bad, bad... mud and more...

Klink, Oberst

OK, another one. And, yes... I will dump the link for the Tutorial '42 scenario soon.

Klink, Oberst

Something ain't right...

Klink, Oberst

Never neglect and look down on logistics and repair crews ever, ever, ever, again...

They are crucial!!!

Klink, Oberst

I am losing my mind... Elmer is a real pain in the butt sometimes...

Klink, Oberst

When you think it's bad, it only gets worse. ;(

Klink, Oberst

I failed... ( How can I EVER face 11.Pz.Div now? Not getting the supplies, not even the Feldpost (army mail from their beloved ones!)... because I simply FAILED to do a BORING job in TOAW IV to keep the LOS open....

Klink, Oberst

OK peeps, you know the drill - The Tutorial '42 goes into... right, the \Documents\My Games\The Operational Art of War IV\Graphics Override folder. The other bits you dump into the... Documents\My Games\The Operational Art of War IV\Scenarios\TUTORIALS
folder!

Klink, Oberst

P.S. I do CRAVE for feedback +/- I don't give a fiddler's... you know

Forgot... to edit Pol.Res.Kp.3 NOT to reconstitute... gimme a few minutes...

Klink, Oberst

Done! See above. Well... have fun with 'boring' keeping the LOS/LOC open!

Klink, Oberst

Again... do forgive me about the poxy typos... Not very professional, I do admit.
Apart from that... I do require feedback and suggestions about what to cover next. Danke!

Klink, Oberst

[:D]

I've got 2 sort of general questions and this seems to be a learner thread so I hope you don't mind if I post them here. 1 is inspired by your mention of tactical reserve to get your arty to support your troops early in your walkthrough.

1) If I want my arty to just generally support whatever is in range - how should I set the unit up? What posture and is there any other setting I need other than to be in range of a battle for the arty to provide support? I think I do _not_ need to click on it in battle planner since clicking there is only used if I want it to exclusively support this one battle right?

2) I'm confused about how movement done by units that are _not_ part of any battle affects elapsed time when you choose to execute all planned battles. For example if I have a unit that has moved 1/10 rounds and is doing an attack that maybe is expected to consume 1 round. And I have a 2nd unit that has moved 10/10 rounds (spent all movement points) but hasn't done any attack and is not part of any attack. Then I execute attack. What happens? Will time elapsed for the first unit be 2/10 after the attack is resolved or will it be 10/10 since the 2nd unit has already spent all movement even though it never participated in any combat and is not near any combat? (imagine the 2nd unit is moving from rear areas up toward the line of battle but has not reached it yet despite using all 10/10 alloted rounds moving along roads.

Thanks

I take it you approve. Perhaps I shall create Tutorial '43 with...



Forsvaret af frivillige legion Danmark?

Klink, Oberst

Disclaimer: It is NOT a political statement. FaneFlugt.DK understands

Klink, Oberst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNfR3l0JcVE

why not 9. April. 1940 ? [:D]