Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Beethoven1

Regarding the rail redundancy, to me it seems like most of the time less freight gets shipped along rail lines than their actual capacity. So having multiple rail lines by itself wouldn't help in that case. However, if you have more railyards connected (as opposed to simply having more rail lines without more railyards), then in theory that should help. So having extra rail line paths in the north may not help too much, because there are not many rail yards there. But in the south, it might help more, if you are connecting more rail yards because of it. The south has more railyards than the north.

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ORIGINAL: loki100

re damage repair, it keys off leader admin rolls (I think its admin), the vehicle reliability, supply. Think thats it, so there is no clear 'speed', but I think supply is important (going on the view that in 1941 I struggled to clear damaged tanks, come 1943 and they are a bit of a non-issue)

getting replacements is tricky. In part the active pool is most likely low (the hard wired, realistic, production issue), in part a tank has a fairly hefty load so not many get shifted along the train lines if they are stressed. You certainly need to be to the rear and at a depot with plenty of freight.

I realise no-one likes doing this (incl me) but in the end flipping it to the national reserve really does solve both problems. It will grab missing tanks and repair/swap out its damaged stock. The price is it returning at one of your NSS and having shed its CPP.

In both my games that have completed the 41-42 winter, I ended up with 2 Pzr divisions I simply couldn't get to repair, this solved it, but they were off for about 5 weeks.

Joel has said there is no bias as such vs tanks in the freight system, but there is generally a presumption against replacements (they are last after freight as fuel etc). So there maybe something lurking in the system (aka a bug) but if so its not obvious.

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ORIGINAL: K62

According to 25.2:

The ability of a unit to receive replacements and
supplies/fuel/ammo, and repair damaged aircraft and
ground elements is dependent on its location in relation
to the supply grid, specifically the distance from the
depot or depots from which they are drawing supply
and replacements. All these functions are conducted
automatically during the logistics phase (5.3.1).

So sitting on a depot seems like the right move.

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

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ORIGINAL: loki100

re damage repair, it keys off leader admin rolls (I think its admin), the vehicle reliability, supply. Think thats it, so there is no clear 'speed', but I think supply is important (going on the view that in 1941 I struggled to clear damaged tanks, come 1943 and they are a bit of a non-issue)

getting replacements is tricky. In part the active pool is most likely low (the hard wired, realistic, production issue), in part a tank has a fairly hefty load so not many get shifted along the train lines if they are stressed. You certainly need to be to the rear and at a depot with plenty of freight.

I realise no-one likes doing this (incl me) but in the end flipping it to the national reserve really does solve both problems. It will grab missing tanks and repair/swap out its damaged stock. The price is it returning at one of your NSS and having shed its CPP.

In both my games that have completed the 41-42 winter, I ended up with 2 Pzr divisions I simply couldn't get to repair, this solved it, but they were off for about 5 weeks.

Joel has said there is no bias as such vs tanks in the freight system, but there is generally a presumption against replacements (they are last after freight as fuel etc). So there maybe something lurking in the system (aka a bug) but if so its not obvious.

Thank you for your answer.

It looks to me over 2 turns the damage elements only went down on average about ~20-30% while still adding replacements.

Ya, I won't send my PZ Divisions to the Reserve. I would rather rail them to a NSS instead stopping at depots on the rails to the NSS if can't make it in one turn. Or what I have been thinking is like setting Kiev and Minsk up as level 4 depot to stockpile supply then send the PZ Divisions there instead for a try in my next game. Granted I will take a supply hit to the front in 41 but may be an alternative but that is just me "musing" over a solution.

Also, I had too many units in the Center asking for replacements at one time it looks like too. I have rectified that this turn cutting down on the call for replacements to units in the center to have more supply for units in general. At least that is what it looked like to me.

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Turn 10 Beginning of Turn

PZ Division

My worst shape Panzer division. Even my best shape one next to supply is in bad shape :(

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Again, I want to say it here in this AAR that I really do appreciate the information that Loki shares in my posts and others. This information is invaluable & very much appreciated. Plus, this goes to all people on the forum that are helpful in their postings. Thank you & keep up the posts.

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Turn 10 Ground Phase

Rzhev

I go all out to take Rzhev without Ground Support. (My airbases didn't have enough Air Support in the area for Fighters or bombers. I rectify this this turn and lesson learned the hard way.)

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ORIGINAL: DesertedFox

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Turn 10 Ground Phase

Rzhev

I go all out to take Rzhev without Ground Support. (My airbases didn't have enough Air Support in the area for Fighters or bombers. I rectify this this turn and lesson learned the hard way.)

How do you "force" air support units to a specific airfield?