Ground warfare and supplylines in china
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:59 am
I am playing my first game (scen 15 as Japan).
My questions are:
1) is there a way to move a unit (ground) without marching? i mean, if i want to transport it shouldn't it be faster? or the march (or navy transport) are the only ways to move a unit. i don't think in RL if japan wanted to move a division between 2 cities connected by railroad would have ordered the unit to march. they would have moved it by train.
2) during ground fights, is there a way to kill the enemy unit or cause heavy losses? the ground fights seems strange. i have beaten same chinese armies 100k units in almost 10 consecutive days but everytime the loss is 200-500 casualties. and i am talking about huge armies (50k chinese against 100k japs) and with great odds on my side. but even if i am able to beat them everytime, they keep almost the same assault points and size. it seems neverending. even if i use shock attack, or bombardement first, i get always the same results.
3) how supply lines in land work? during my campaign in china i lost a city which was the sole link to the advancing units (4 hexs north attacking chinese. In theory, my units should have become out of supply within days. instead, they worked just fine.
and the same thing i noticed for the chinese troops. i conquered almost 75% of chinese bases but still i have many chinese units moving in plains even if all the bases are held by me. shouldn't they be out of supply?
My questions are:
1) is there a way to move a unit (ground) without marching? i mean, if i want to transport it shouldn't it be faster? or the march (or navy transport) are the only ways to move a unit. i don't think in RL if japan wanted to move a division between 2 cities connected by railroad would have ordered the unit to march. they would have moved it by train.
2) during ground fights, is there a way to kill the enemy unit or cause heavy losses? the ground fights seems strange. i have beaten same chinese armies 100k units in almost 10 consecutive days but everytime the loss is 200-500 casualties. and i am talking about huge armies (50k chinese against 100k japs) and with great odds on my side. but even if i am able to beat them everytime, they keep almost the same assault points and size. it seems neverending. even if i use shock attack, or bombardement first, i get always the same results.
3) how supply lines in land work? during my campaign in china i lost a city which was the sole link to the advancing units (4 hexs north attacking chinese. In theory, my units should have become out of supply within days. instead, they worked just fine.
and the same thing i noticed for the chinese troops. i conquered almost 75% of chinese bases but still i have many chinese units moving in plains even if all the bases are held by me. shouldn't they be out of supply?