railroad question

[slo]

how do you cut off your enemy supply with the railroad? Do you destroy them somehow or do you have to occupy the land?

In other words can I bomb a railroad?

[Mercutio]

Not that I am aware of. You have to have control over the railroad hex.

That said, I am not sure what happens when you cut the rail over Murmansk to Moscow. Do they still get the lend-lease? It didn't change to Archangel that I was aware of in 1.03 when I cut the route to the AI.

[xriz]

I think bombing, using strategic bombers on "Town/City" hexes along a road and RR rout, will do what you're looking for more or less. Without a supply source hexes along the way, the RR hexes by them selves, don't extend a HQ's supply much further.

[sPzAbt653]

That is correct, you don't bomb the rail, you bomb the 'railhub' in the towns/cities. That will allow you to isolate sections of the map, and that makes it impossible for your opponent to defend [:)]

[Uxbridge]

Gosh. This was totally new.

But at what level of destruction is the railway non-working? In the brief moment when the urban area reaches "0"?? Is this in the manual and not "de-patched"?

[BillRunacre]

An urban resource with a railway running through it needs to be at strength 5 or more for the railway to work. If below that strength then land units cannot operate via rail to/from/via that location.

[Mercutio]

Right, but what about what I asked about cutting the rail north of Leningrad. How does the lend-lease from Murmansk get through if you cut it off?

[Hubert Cater]

Lend Lease and other similar convoy structures only look at the Port strengths and in this case the sending and receiving ports would need to be above strength 5 as well.