LoBaron
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ORIGINAL: Flicker That was kind of my question - does a navigable river improve the automatic delivery of supply? Is the river like a road or railroad? Rivers do not influence automatic supply movement. This solely depends on road/railroad connections to the hexsides, and the type of terrain. (FWIIW, rivers are not "type of terrain" in this regard) quote:
Build infrastructure question - larger bases don't suffer from as much supply spoilage as smaller bases, so building up a base from airfield size 1 to airfield 3 seems like it might improve the supply network by reducing spoilage. I am building up bases located on critical railways / roads - does this improve my supply network? I know that building up 'safe' bases will improve my score, but I want to improve my logistics where possible. Will building each base to AF size 3 along the railroads between Sidney and Port Augusta / Alice Springs, as well as along the roads / rails from Alice Springs to Darwin improve the automatic supply network to Darwin? I've been investing a lot of engineers into this project and would like to know that I'm not wasting their time... I'm doing the same in India (rail bases from Bombay to Calcutta to Ledo) and the US / Canada rail bases. In India I would propose against it, as the reilroad network alone will suffice. Railroads have close to no wastage on supply pull, so the distances you can pull supplies across are enourmous. Basically it is not worth the effort, more so as you need engineers for more important tasks. Australia is another story, as the road network is worse. It will help to increase the supply stock at the built up bases before wastage starts, but without also upping the supply requirements at those bases it does not help much. But besides automatic supply flow, there is a tactic to get large ammounts of supplies over distances where supply flow usually is low, or wastage high: Up the ammount of supplies required at a base (do not forget that the actual supplies requested there is suplies required times 3) and wait for the supply stock to build up. After a certain ammount is reached, lower the suplies required gradually again, and up the supplies required on the next base on the way, and so forth, until you have reached the desired destination. Obviousely, the larger a base, the higher you can set the base requirements before supplies are wasted.
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