Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: loki100

the relationship of replacements to other freight is one of the hidden aspects to the system (or at least I've never got beyond observation and a vague feel).

2 bits I know/strongly suspect. Replacements are last in the supply distribution routines so if you have maxed out your network or depots you won't get much in terms of replacements.

This is why, come October, the German manpower pool increases, all those disrupted/damaged elements that are treated as long term wounded/needing serious repair can't get back to their actual combat units.

I think that men lost in the replacement sequence don't show up, the unit will show the net change +/- but say a 'damanged' man who has recovered either reaches the unit or doesn't. So yes, I think in this sense there is no immediate attrition but there may well be attrition in the wider logistics system

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25.3. FREIGHT
Freight represents the generic capability to transport material through the supply grid. As such, freight is not converted to the actual material, whether as fuel, supplies, ammunition, vehicles or ground elements, until it is drawn upon by the end user. At that stage, the actual items needed are drawn from the production pools, if they are present.

For example, when one ton of freight is moved to a unit that is getting supplies, it is converted into one ton of supplies and at the same time one ton of supplies is consumed from the general supply pool (25.2). A shortage of needed material in a pool or a shortage of freight in a player’s depots will have the same result of not being able to meet a unit’s supply and replacement needs.

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Ground unit losses, whether combat or non-combat related, while expressed in terms of men, guns and AFV’s, are actually based on destroyed and damaged ground elements