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Truck Management
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:06 pm
by GPT55
Where can I find advice on truck management for the Soviet side? I never have enough trucks!
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:04 am
by 56ajax
um remove bombers from airfields, keep as many units on railway lines as possible, don't create units that use lots of trucks, disband unwanted HQ units, don't attach non motorised units to motorised corps...you will still run out
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:45 am
by Colbert
Prioritise the escape of Soviet units with lots of vehicles in turn 1 and the early turns from encirclements. Evacuate vehicle factories to the East before they get overrun. As AFVs can replace vehicle use and get scrapped to vehicles, saving them too (by same means) will help your general vehicle situation.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:21 pm
by AlexSF
ORIGINAL: 56ajax
um remove bombers from airfields, keep as many units on railway lines as possible, don't create units that use lots of trucks, disband unwanted HQ units, don't attach non motorised units to motorised corps...you will still run out
don't attach non motorised units to motorised corps
Why would it be a problem? They'd use more trucks then?
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:13 pm
by VigaBrand
Yes. A sapper regiment unse 3 trucks, if you attach it to a tank corps, it used over 100.
So, use your tank battlions for the tank corps und the rifle corps get the sapper, you will need the same amount of trucks.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:33 pm
by AlexSF
I'd expect my sappers to ride my tanks like good old "tank desantniki" !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_desant
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:35 pm
by chaos45
keep in mind sapper regiments re-organize to battalions in late 1941 now...there is no point in building them anymore as you in effect spent extra AP on them for no benefit.
As well a sapper Battalion has almost no combat value, so you are much better off spending AP on better support units.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:35 pm
by GPT55
Thanks for the advice guys. Some of the suggestions I had not thought of.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:40 pm
by tomeck48
But don't the sappers help build fortifications?
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:33 pm
by VigaBrand
Yes, they do.
But a tank battallion with 50 exp has 0,7 CV and a sapper regiment had 0,2 I think.
You could decide between more cv (and maybe more firepower) or faster fortification.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:06 pm
by HardLuckYetAgain
Recently I don't even worry about getting fortifications up. Plus sappers now are a mere shell of what they used to be. Yes, it is nice and all but by the time I put the time sync into getting them done the Germans just blow through them quicker than I can make them. I rely more now on reserves and counter-attacking. You will see many areas in 42, when I catch up on my AAR, with level 0 or maybe a level 1 fort.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:43 pm
by thedoctorking
Another way to economize on trucks is to put units into static mode. Costs a bunch of AP though, one per unit to put them in and another one to take them out. And if there's a breakthrough, the static guys are basically screwed. But if you have a sector that is truly going to be static for a long period of time, you can do static mode for the front-line guys and liberate thousands of trucks.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:13 am
by AlexSF
Yep, static mode is a great way to save on trucks. Especially in the North/Volkhov region where the front lines often stabilize very quicly. Put your units on static at the end of Summer during the mud and snow until next Spring. They can still move 1 hex/turn on static, most of the time it's enough.
Plus they built up forts quicker when on static.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:11 pm
by 56ajax
ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain
Recently I don't even worry about getting fortifications up. Plus sappers now are a mere shell of what they used to be. Yes, it is nice and all but by the time I put the time sync into getting them done the Germans just blow through them quicker than I can make them. I rely more now on reserves and counter-attacking. You will see many areas in 42, when I catch up on my AAR, with level 0 or maybe a level 1 fort.
Totally agree, minimum fortification must be 3+ otherwise forget it.
RE: Truck Management
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:40 am
by AlexSF
minimum fort to set to static is 2 actually