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BBfanboy -> RE: Marching vs Rail (9/3/2021 5:36:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Ian R
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ORIGINAL: Alfred
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ORIGINAL: Ian R
See above. I don't think its a cheat. I think it actually operates as a de facto fix for a judgment issue, namely that USMC, CW and French units were omitted from the hard code that defines who can road move.
It was never changed in a patch because it was not an oversight. It was a deliberate decision to restrict which nationalities could could use strategic movement on roads.
Alfred
In other words, Alfred, someone (or perhaps a committee) made a judgment call about which nationalities could move in what in a boardgame you might call "lorry lifted road mode"*. The reason why Commonwealth specific nationality formations cannot enter road mode like all other Commonwealth nationalities' formations is elusive, as is the exclusion of USMC formations.
*As opposed to moving by human/equine muscle power on a road net instead of cross country.
It could have come under the heading of "game balance" which would tend to introduce more restrictions on Allied formations to allow for a more exciting and long-played game.
There is also some logic to it - in the early war Canadian Army formations did not have a lot of transport - that was concentrated in the Service Battalions which were equivalent of USA BFs. But by 1943 the Canadian Army had received some of the vehicle production from the UK, USA and possibly licensed Canadian factories and could be considered strat-mobile by road. Almost all of the vehicles would have been in Britain where the Canadian Army was part of the build-up.
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