Reflections on Sicily

[Ricky B]

Regarding supply dumps, and supply units in general, remember that the capture of one results in the immediate loss of half the supply points. This obviously covers the fact that even if captured intact, most ammo is unusable. However, fuel, food and any water (drinks in general - the Soviets capture a supply unit and find alcohol and get drunk and go disrupted :) ), is useful.

How easy was it to totally destroy a supply dump? Very hard without a lot of engineer work and time. You don't just throw in a grenade and destroy an entire dump. As not all supply is represented in supply units in the game, only the ability to keep a unit at "full" supply, I think the loss of 50% on capture works well - it was common to capture at least a few supplies while moving forward. Most games only rarely use fixed supply dumps anyway, not sure how much in Sicily so maybe a tweak to make them mobile would work better - they could even be fixed to that they can't move until an enemy unit appears in view, I think that would work?

Rick

Edit: good points above mine, they weren't there when I started replying but it took me awhile to post my changes. The blowing a portion at a time is reasonable, would just require passing the normal HPS/JT test for whether to implement based on their factors.