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I am playing Battleground Italy
I am looking at the production screen

Vehicles in units 115,168 (104,987)
Vehicles in Depots 27,563 (21772)
Vehicle pool 172,901

I think the Depot and unit pools are not bad as they have more Vehicles than required. BUT what is the Vehicle pool and what does it do ?

THANK YOU

Basically its trucks not allocated to depots/units but could be called on when needed.

Be a bit careful as some are probably in transit from repair/damaged but in this case I'd guess they are lounging about somewhere nice and sunny drinking tea or coffee (depending on nationality) and running a bit of black market private enterprise behind your back [:)]

Worth remembering the truck/unit truck/depot ratios are actually slightly different.

Truck/unit is what you'd expect, ie trucks in unit/trucks needed in units.

Truck/depot isn't, the two numbers are trucsk in depot/total trucks used in the supply system.

If in depot<used in supply system the missing bit is drawn back from the trucks in units to compensate (ie units use their own trucks to get supplies), in turn this can hit mobility as those trucks aren't available to move bits of the unit around.

In the case you've cited, this isn't a problem as your depot truck pool is more than covering the logistics systems but you'll find it much worse in the France 44 scenarios (once you have pushed out beyond Normandy)

This already may be in the excellent GWITE.bestof.V3. Unless it's different for WitW [;)]

This is a great resource,too: tm.asp?m=4317692

Fortunately, I can play against the AI without knowing all this stuff!