Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

After five years, it is only the small things that are left for scrutiny.

I have no problem with one hex islands. What bugs me are two-hex or more islands which have non-base hexes in them. If there is no limit of how much a unit can carry,than a single division can carry 500,000 supplies and the defender cannot destroy it from air because the division has no depot because the depot exists on the shoulders of its soldiers. You can only pound the division from air to try disable its squads. This seems tricky if the unit has organic AA or AA units traveling with them. Seems Yamashita was right about the late-war defence in northern Luzon. Park your forces in the non-base hexes with tons of supplies and AA there and you become a real PITA for the Allies.

Another thing, if supplies stick to the unit then you should be able to wage a guerrilla war indefinitely in places where enemy controls all the bases and your initial supply pile is big enough.

Also if you invade the Australia as the Japs, just dump several units and 300,000 supplies and tons of AA units and they should be able to travel across Oz with impunity as long as they do not conquer any base. Once they get hold of at least one base, the supplies should start trickling from the unit to the base. If a unit moves from hex to hex does it suffer supply attritions equal to supply movement trace cost through hex or only loses the supplies eaten by the unit?

The supply pile seems indestructible - you cannot bomb it from air, probably id doesn't suffer trace cost as it moves with the unit and suffers no spoilage since there are no port/airfield stockpile levels in non-base hexes.

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ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

The primary point here is not supply destruction by air bombardement or other bombardment, but ratehr the ability for an LCU to carry an unlimited amount of supply.

I wonder it won't take too much to correct this.

Second point is supply interdicton in general by air, and this yes may be a big job (to introduce in the game).

I think that Yaab should only be thanked for bringing up interesting points.

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ORIGINAL: Nomad

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ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

The primary point here is not supply destruction by air bombardement or other bombardment, but ratehr the ability for an LCU to carry an unlimited amount of supply.

I wonder it won't take too much to correct this.

Second point is supply interdicton in general by air, and this yes may be a big job (to introduce in the game).

I think that Yaab should only be thanked for bringing up interesting points.

This will never happen.

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ORIGINAL: Yaab
One more question. If a unit is in a non-base hex behind enemy lines and you fly transport mission and drop supplies to te unit, will the dropped supplies then "stick" to the unit? If so, if you fly hundreds of transport missions and there is no limit as to how much a unit can carry, you could end up with a super-unit carrying i.e. 10,000 supplies. Could be interesting to see such unit in Burma or New Guinea.

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Basically, an eternal non-base hex commando unit.