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I find it hard to plan ahead for the next week since I do not know what units will be available and who will be unavailable due to low supply.

As the topic say: Is it possible to see how much a unit will receive in supply the next turn?

No, it's something you must learn to anticipate, by not placing them when they will recieve very little or nothing at all. I think that's part of the learning curve in this game. To master the supply system without being given everything on a plate should be fun for any armchair general [:)]

ORIGINAL: morvael

I think that's part of the learning curve in this game.

Then that is all fine by me Thank you for the answer!

Put yourself if Rail Movement mode with no units selected. As far as I understand there are three different shades representing supply, clear is good, greyer colouring is not as good and the darker colour means supply is not good at all. Airdrop supplies into the darkest areas. I find this map mode helps a lot.

Also, as far as I understand, in the first couple of turns the Axis have oversupply/supply buildup. It is difficult to get to these equivalent movement levels after the first two or so turns. HQ buildup will help with this.

ORIGINAL: Hardradi

Put yourself if Rail Movement mode with no units selected.

That sounds like a good suggestion

ORIGINAL: Hardradi
Also, as far as I understand, in the first couple of turns the Axis have oversupply/supply buildup. ... HQ buildup will help with this.

An extension to this is when units already have a good stockpile of supplies, how much more they can get in supplies that turn matters much less.

20 Panzer Division in the picture has just finished moving sometime after turn 60 - yet it still is carrying 76% of the fuel it needs. It is worth checking if units, or the HQs that supply them, already have stockpiles of what they need and so supplying more this turn will not be so critical.

Yes, that makes sense. In my case however I drove my panzer divisions too far ahead in the first few weeks of the war and after three turns it still is low of supplies even though it has not moved at all. Well, well.. My bad...

Maybe your FBD railroad repairs are not correctly done? They must follow the spearheads as much as possible. And you got to make sure your corps HQs are never more than 25 hexes and 100 MPs from the railheads

when you hit the railnet buttom will your map showing light area grey area and dark area that tell you the supply situation dark area are very bad supplied

In theory you can calculate the amount of supply the unit will get. The supply system is deterministic and almost all formulas are known. For practical purposes, you will have to develop an intuition.

ORIGINAL: EwaldvonKleist

For practical purposes, you will have to develop an intuition.

Yes, I understand. I guess it takes some time to learn.

There are some good rules of thumb though. If the HQ is on rail lines you will get 40-50MPs for motorised, if in the light shaded zone you should get 20-30 MPs and so on.