Slitherine

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Be careful with temporary replacement reduction (turn #x 50%, turn #(x+y) 200%). OPART rounds odd
rates up and down at random. (Jarek)

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ORIGINAL: TheJSFFenix

Can someone explain to me how increasing/decreasing of replacements works?

I know that there is a stockpile of equipment that is on hand that can be handed out to units, and it comes at a certain rate per turn, so if replacements get decreased or increased by event, does that mean the rate is affected or the on hand pile? The evil ed doc that I have from the toaw beachhead says that the way it works is that it multiplies the replacements but that temporary replacements reductions are tricky for some reason that I don't quite understand (something about OPART randomly rounding up and down?)

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Be careful with temporary replacement reduction (turn #x 50%, turn #(x+y) 200%). OPART rounds odd
rates up and down at random. (Jarek)

However this info was written for TOAW 3, so I wonder if there is anything I have to know for TOAW 4? Also, the way I see it often done with replacements is that people make units that are later disbanded so that the equipment gets dumped in a pile to distribute (France 1944 starts disbanding brigades worth of equipment for the Germans later in the scenario instead of giving them a +replacements event and Soviet Union 1941 also does that with Lend Lease stuff), so which one of those two methods is better if I say, want to have one side start getting a replacements edge past a certain point in the scenario for initiative shifting (not literal initiative, I mean the advantage) and stuff?

Also what is exactly this warning about temporary replacements reduction and why is this tricky again?

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ORIGINAL: TheJSFFenix

Also, the way I see it often done with replacements is that people make units that are later disbanded so that the equipment gets dumped in a pile to distribute (France 1944 starts disbanding brigades worth of equipment for the Germans later in the scenario instead of giving them a +replacements event and Soviet Union 1941 also does that with Lend Lease stuff), so which one of those two methods is better if I say, want to have one side start getting a replacements edge past a certain point in the scenario for initiative shifting (not literal initiative, I mean the advantage) and stuff?