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Hi all,

In trying to track down the Dud Supply Line bug I noticed a potential bug where supplies may never arrive at air drop and air landing SEPs. Has anyone noticed this?

In any case I have made a modification to ensure this doesn't happen and this will be in the patch.

I was going to ask about this. Currently I'm playing the Maleme historical campaign and am at day 4. My fallschirmsjäger are starving!

How does a base determine from what SEP or what superior base it draws? I had LLSt rgt holding the airfield and 3rd rgt holding prison valley. Still LLSt base tried to get supplies from 7th Div base tens of kilometers away with plenty of enemy in the way. Not until I managed to get 7th Div base to Maleme did I see a dark green line go to the Airfield SEP. This was the first time I noticed such a line. *** Now, looking at save games I see that there are such lines in day 2. But not in a very logical fashion. 3 rgt base draws from the airdrop in Prison valley (good) while 7th Div base tries to draw from the airfield (bad). LLst draws from 7th Div base (bad). ***
In day 3 7th Div base draws from the airfield and has a ligth green line to the airdrop?

This gets even more confusing once 5th Gebirgsjäger Div arrive since I then have two top level bases. I reckon only one base at a time can draw from a SEP? Still with 80% of the supply arriving at the airfield how do I get that distributed to two divisions?

Still, my troops should have gotten some of the supply in some way and I can't find any request, or arrivals of supply for 7th Div base. The regimental bases do request and get supply occasionally. But for LLSt this is not often, I suppose this is due to the long distances involved in getting supplies first from the airfield and to the valley, and then back again! On foot!

Please help me! We are doing well in Crete except for the lack of basic supply (and also ammo in some instances). I have now moved 7th Div base to the airfield but now the competition with 5th Div base screwed that up. [:(]

I believe I have fixed this. I will be putting out a new build for the beta testers ( Panther Prowlers ) to test early next week. I have just two more things on my list, which I hope to knock over on Monday/Tuesday. So it won't be long.

Thanks for the quick reply! I hope the fix works because it really is a new game with the supply side. Much more interesting and realistic. [:)]

It's always good when a bug is fixed before you can report it Thanks Arjuna. I was getting quite worried when my paratroopers never received any basic supplies.

mefi,
 
Yes the patch should be out shortly. We're just trying to resolve a low level bug inside our PodDouble class that's has only now been highlighted due to the fix for the resupply code. Ain't it always the way. [;)]

I spent several hours thinking Unkle Hermann had been packing the planes with Christmas trees again [:D]

Looking forward to playing a game with the supply implemented as you designed. The patch sounds like it is going to be an huge accomplishment in itself.

Mildly related, is anyone else experiencing resupply problems for artillery in the FS?

Playing Malta as Germany, all my other mortar units have been resupplied, but the three units I had detached and show up in the FS tab, haven't had any new deliveries of mortar ammunition. The ammo is on the island, same sized shells were just delivered to organic units.

In fact, the units haven't had any deliveries, despite resupply requests.

All three are well behind the lines, fairly close to the base they are reported to be drawing from.

nm. Didn't read post properly

I have noticed that but I assumed it was tied up with the bug Arjuna mentions in his OP.

dinsdale,
 
Yes it was tied up and is now fixed. Good news. Overnight autotesting produced a clean slate. So a new and hopefully final beta patch build is going out to testers today. Won't be long.