Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Kronolog

I'm in March 1945 in a '43 campaign against the German AI on challenging - having advanced up to the Rhine in the north and the Alps in Italy - and from what I can discern from the "metrics screen", it appears that strategic bombing has an effect; however it's not effective enough to actually make a noticeable impact on the battlefield. In my game, the German fuel stores + pool peaked at 1,821k (imperial or metric tonnes?) on turn 37, and on turn 90 it's down to 310 000. However, the German fuel requirements per turn as of March is only about 17 000 (requirements peaked at turn 71 at approx. 22 000), so they aren't really suffering any shortages.

German oil stores + pool have been comfortably above 2 000k ever since turn 25; requirements peaked at 400 000 on turn 28, and is at 200 000 on turn 90.

German supply stores + pool have been above 8500 k since turn 19; requirements have steadily sunken from 1 000k during the first turns to about 500k on turn 90.

German resource stores + pool have been less than half of requirements for the whole game: stores + pools were between 3900k-4700k between turn 3 and turn 80, after which it has taken a dive and on turn 90 it is at 1600k. Requirements were between 8500k and 11 000k between turn 3 and turn 80; on turn 90 it's about 4500k.

With that said, it would probably be even harder against a human German opponent, as the AI for example neither defends the Romanian oil fields with FlaK, nor with fighters.

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ORIGINAL: whoofe

how much of those resources are down due to losing territory (both to WA and soviets) rather than bombing?

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ORIGINAL: dereck

See my post in DEFENSE TOO STRONG thread.

I still say that the German National Supply Cities are each giving the German economy 250,000 supplies and 25,00 fuel each turn.

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ORIGINAL: meklore61

I have one question about the ability to actually close a rail hex down thru railway interdiction. Is this possible to do where no rail traffic goes thru that hex? I understand that the cap for rail movement is 30k thru a hex, and if my FB's are making 40-80k interdiction thru the hex, does that not cap it? Or does some still get thru past the cap? I've always been a little unclear about how this actually works.

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ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

We appreciate all the feedback in this thread. Here are a few of the changes that we've either made in versions in testing or are now experimenting with:

1) East Front box regularly uses more fuel and supplies. (we don't think we were consuming enough on the eastern front)
2) Fuel and oil factories are easier to damage to higher levels, and harder to repair than other factory types. (we think these targets should be more vulnerable than others, and not quite as difficult to get high damage percentages since not as easy to disperse)
3) Increased number of damaged and destroyed trucks from supply operations. Increased Allied vehicle repair rate. (we think the Germans should have a bigger vehicle issue than they have had in the game to date)
4) Increased losses in the East Front box. (this has been tweaked many times over the months and we're thinking the losses should be a bit higher)
5) Railyard damage was not impacting the amount of freight that would be shipped and unloaded at a railyard depot in the hex. Now, there is a percentage chance equal to the railyard damage that the amount shipped to a railyard depot will be divided by 10. (looking to make railyard bombing more productive)
6) Due to the sequence of actions, destroyed freight in depots was not causing a loss of fuel or supplies in the general pool if those pools were already low. This has been changed so that the correct amount lost will always be taken from the pools. (again, makes railyard bombing more productive, especially when there's already a shortage)

Items 1 and 4 only come into play when using the East Front option.

It will likely be several weeks before these changes are made available as a beta version as some of these still need further internal testing. I just wanted to let people know that we continue to work on improving the game and we do try to respond to the feedback we see from players in the forum. This doesn't mean the game isn't playable now, it just means that we hope to continue to improve the game's fidelity as we get more information.