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FOARP -> RE: Operate Function (5/6/2020 12:50:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ARPH56
Hmm ... understand. I was trying to prohibit the AI from making land unit movements that seem unrealistic. In March on Paris, I noticed that the AI moves French divisions from the Vosges region all the way up to Liege in Belgium in a single "day". Not possible in real life.
"Operate" is supposed to model movement by rail. It is just about conceivable that a division could do this in a single day by rail.
I understand that the average speed for German troop trains taking troops from the East Front to the West in early 1918 was 20 miles an hour, the road distance from the Vosges to Liege is roughly 250 miles, maybe 300 miles along available track, so transport via through-trains would be sufficient to achieve this. Historically, one-day rail mobilisations of similar length (e.g., Vladivostok to Svyagina north of Lake Khanka) were achieved during e.g., the Siberian intervention (see p. 60 here). This article gives a figure of 500 miles per day for trains on the USSR networks during WW2.
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