Am I totally missing something in regard to supply?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 12:30 am
"Good generals study tactics. Great generals study logistics."
Situation:
I’m playing the 1942 scenario as the Allies against the computer (although this same situation has come up several times that I have played that same scenario). In the India/Thailand theatre, I have captured Rangoon, the port is ‘up and running’ and I am pressing toward Bangkok and the iron ore fields in Thailand.
All of a sudden, huge swaths of territory with several Indian and British corps and divisions, as well as air squadrons, have no supply source. Using the hot key to check for supply, every hex shows a number indicating that the hex is in supply (or so I understood that to mean the hex was in supply). Rangoon is showing a ‘9’ and nothing else that would show that supply is interrupted. Yet, some of the units are so far from a “supplied hex” that they were not able to even move back into supply over three turns and so were reduced or later eliminated, even the unit and squadron in Rangoon.
I thought that possibly the supply source was Rangoon’s port and somehow that was being interdicted. However, I put a squadron of interceptors there and they never had a battle. I had British ships in a couple of hexes near Rangoon to try to spot any ships or subs that might be having an effect. Finally, I even used 2 commintel that I had from production to try to find anything that could be affecting supply but discovered nothing.
Questions:
• Is that a glitch, or can the map show a ‘supply number’ and still have that hex be out of supply?
• I had always thought that using the ‘supply’ hot key would tell me which hexes were in or out of supply. If that is not the case, how can I do that? And/or how can I tell where the break in the supply line is?
Thanks for the help.
Situation:
I’m playing the 1942 scenario as the Allies against the computer (although this same situation has come up several times that I have played that same scenario). In the India/Thailand theatre, I have captured Rangoon, the port is ‘up and running’ and I am pressing toward Bangkok and the iron ore fields in Thailand.
All of a sudden, huge swaths of territory with several Indian and British corps and divisions, as well as air squadrons, have no supply source. Using the hot key to check for supply, every hex shows a number indicating that the hex is in supply (or so I understood that to mean the hex was in supply). Rangoon is showing a ‘9’ and nothing else that would show that supply is interrupted. Yet, some of the units are so far from a “supplied hex” that they were not able to even move back into supply over three turns and so were reduced or later eliminated, even the unit and squadron in Rangoon.
I thought that possibly the supply source was Rangoon’s port and somehow that was being interdicted. However, I put a squadron of interceptors there and they never had a battle. I had British ships in a couple of hexes near Rangoon to try to spot any ships or subs that might be having an effect. Finally, I even used 2 commintel that I had from production to try to find anything that could be affecting supply but discovered nothing.
Questions:
• Is that a glitch, or can the map show a ‘supply number’ and still have that hex be out of supply?
• I had always thought that using the ‘supply’ hot key would tell me which hexes were in or out of supply. If that is not the case, how can I do that? And/or how can I tell where the break in the supply line is?
Thanks for the help.