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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Thank you everyone for your posts and invaluable insight into the Freight system and the posts in my AAR. I hope some questions have been answered for some.

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ORIGINAL: EwaldvonKleist

Beethoven1, Loki, thanks for your ruleset contributions regarding the 200SMP. The fact that the entrained freight always takes a "200SMP" budget with it, regardless of the distance it travels, does change things as you describe. Not sure why the system is this way, a unit shipped from Berlin 10 Miles to Potsdam should use less train capacity than one shipped to Rostov in real life, but does not ingame if I understand this correctly?

@Beethoven: The test by Hardradi is not what I described since the rail net is connected to the mainland and is not a single rail line only connected to a port.
From what I have learned now, the test is moot anyway.
Regrads

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

... "pretty misleading to be honest" is offensive and you seem to do it quit often to not only me ...

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ORIGINAL: Stamb

If there is Stalino with lvl 4 depot supply priority and all nearby depots within 30 hexes range are also set at 4 then Stalino's railyard is just useless as it can not perform depot to depot movement and freight that is coming from other sources, lets say Berlin, is utilizing only trains that it was able to grab at en training (Berlin at 30 hexes around in this example) ?

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ORIGINAL: loki100

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

Thank you everyone for your posts and invaluable insight into the Freight system and the posts in my AAR. I hope some questions have been answered for some.

this explanation as to how the system works is in the manual - 30.8.1 including a discussion of how freight takes 'trains' and then moves

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ORIGINAL: EwaldvonKleist

Beethoven1, Loki, thanks for your ruleset contributions regarding the 200SMP. The fact that the entrained freight always takes a "200SMP" budget with it, regardless of the distance it travels, does change things as you describe. Not sure why the system is this way, a unit shipped from Berlin 10 Miles to Potsdam should use less train capacity than one shipped to Rostov in real life, but does not ingame if I understand this correctly?

@Beethoven: The test by Hardradi is not what I described since the rail net is connected to the mainland and is not a single rail line only connected to a port.
From what I have learned now, the test is moot anyway.
Regrads

a) like a unit freight matches its 'weight' to claim rail cap (or shipping or air transport), just 1 tonne of freight = 1 unit of capacity
b) there are complications (above what is said above) but they don't alter the basic system
c) A unit grabs the trains as it entrains, generates a SMP stock (MP left after moves and entrains) and moves, sometimes you can disentrain that move (so the trains go back to source), most often the unit has to wait till next turn to finish its move (so the trains are locked up).
c1) you can test this 'locking up' by entraining say XXXX Pzr when it arrives at Berlin, the rail cap left at Berlin will be reduced till they finally leave their trains
c2) in a unit move you have your 200 SMP (or less), each hex costs from 1-6 SMP (congestion), when you reach the end of your allocation it stops
d) freight does some things the same, some different
d1) entrains, gets 200 SMP pays a variable move cost
d2) must disentrain (which is where intermediate depots come in)
d3) can still try to go 200 hexes but pulls down more rail cap from the original source, so whereas increasing congestion reduces the distance for units it actually increases the cost on rail cap for freight
d4) which is why the amount pumped out of the NSS has a max (the rail yards) but the practical amount (sticking with the axis for the moment) drops as distance/prior usage builds up. Its also why it tends to plateau for the axis player come mid-42 when they basically have all the main rail connections repaired (so the ability to route around congestion) and the at-start malus drops away

Its easier to test the isolated spur question in WiTW as geography generates them. The first (& usually most telling) is that when the Allies move into Italy the rail cap for Sicily is not available, so its not till they have some of the bigger rail yards in S Italy captured, repaired and integrated will they get much rail capacity. Same in France, its slotting Paris into the rail net that starts to give some capacity (all those trains in the UK being useless)

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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain

... "pretty misleading to be honest" is offensive and you seem to do it quit often to not only me ...

your post was misleading, as was the underlying premise. If all you were doing was a discussion of a different way to do depot priorities/HQ placement etc then your take is a valid as anyone elses. May be more or less effective but never right or wrong. When you (inadvertently) misrepresent how it works, and then others shoot off accepting what you've said then, yes, its misleading.

edit - and, of real importance, none of this engages with how demand slots into the system

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ORIGINAL: loki100

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ORIGINAL: Stamb

If there is Stalino with lvl 4 depot supply priority and all nearby depots within 30 hexes range are also set at 4 then Stalino's railyard is just useless as it can not perform depot to depot movement and freight that is coming from other sources, lets say Berlin, is utilizing only trains that it was able to grab at en training (Berlin at 30 hexes around in this example) ?

no

usually issues on this matter are subjective but we have to be clear - all this freight can only go 30 hexes from the depot stuff is nonsense, I'm sorry there is no other way to put it. HLYA has managed to set off a spectacular collection of hares about this.

So if Stalino is at level 4 it cannot do depot-depot transfer, perfectly true, but its got nothing to do with what is within 30 hexes, its to do with the rule that stops depot-depot moves if they are the same priority. If every depot on the map was #3 then the only depot-depot moves would be from the NSS (as they are at 0).

If the entire southern half of the axis depot system was at #3 then Stalino could feasibly still be sending out freight if say Minsk was at #4, that meets the basic test and it could use its local railyards to initiate the transfer

edit: in the end the logistics system is actually very simple, its when people decide that they can game it that all this confusion comes up. Look at Carlkay's AAR, that is how to get a decent 1941 logistics system in place, look at mine (both the vs AI and with SpeedySteve) and that is how to get a decent mid-game logistics system in place.

Your tools are depot priority, unit priority, HQ placement, how you repair the rail net and deploy the FBD/NKPS. All those are subjective, as M60 has argued, there are a number of ways to get it to work but equally there are a number of mistakes that can crash it

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ORIGINAL: Stamb

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I understand it that freight moves 200 smp, not 30 hexes. And I made a mistake in my example. It should be "If there is Stalino with lvl 4 depot supply priority and all nearby depots within 200SMP range are also set at 4"

Basically all depots at 4. Only NSS are 0. In that case rail yards lvl2+ > 30 hexes from NSS are useless, correct?

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ORIGINAL: Hardradi

So I destroy Cherepovets depot on T1, (note it still has supplies as built into the scenario). Now, as far as I understand the northern line, would be outside the range and should not be able to ship to Volkhov/Leningrad. Likewise the southern line is also outside of the range. There are no level 2+ railyards within 30 hexes (if you follow the rail lines) of either Volkhov or Leningrad. There are no interim depots to catch supplies along either the northern line or the southern line.

I run it forward to turn 2 and they still get supplies via rail.

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ORIGINAL: malyhin1517

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ORIGINAL: Hardradi

So I destroy Cherepovets depot on T1, (note it still has supplies as built into the scenario). Now, as far as I understand the northern line, would be outside the range and should not be able to ship to Volkhov/Leningrad. Likewise the southern line is also outside of the range. There are no level 2+ railyards within 30 hexes (if you follow the rail lines) of either Volkhov or Leningrad. There are no interim depots to catch supplies along either the northern line or the southern line.

I run it forward to turn 2 and they still get supplies via rail.

Removing a depot does not remove a railyard, and this level 2 railyard will still provide trains for freight over 30 hexes.