The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

I'm wondering about supply. Can units run out of ammo? What about reupply? Many was the time a unit could fire through their ammo in a short period of heavy combat.

Yes units can run out of ammo and go low fuel, artillery can go low availability. That said this is WIP currently and less of an issue at this scale than at a PzC's scale. See the note above regarding isolation.

David

Ok, I don't want to mislead anyone here. I have gone back and checked my notes.

We have removed supply changes in a scenario for all units other than artillery. Units can be setup as low ammo or low fuel at the beginning of a scenario by the designer and they will roll to recover during play.

The rationale is that in periods of a day or less units would be carrying enough ammunition or fuel to handle combat conditions. Some of this was driven around the justification of units not going low ammo when isolated.

Artillery on the other hand could run out of ammunition more quickly and that has the potential to become unavailable at various times. This reflects both the size of the ammunition and the more finite size of supplies.

As mentioned this may still change, but it's not an issue in the battle covered as there were few if any documented supply shortages.

Finally, a word on supply sources. They are in the game primarily to determine supply of artillery ammunition as well as determine isolation. Being isolated will still drop a unit one morale class. This is viewed as the 'psychological' effect of being cut off. The removal of low ammo when isolated ensure that it isn't a drop of two morale levels.

David