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Originally Posted by Egan

Don't remember it being a problem in the past. well, aside from the usual utterly sucky supply situation in China. Once you lose that link to Burma and the allied supply it gets bad quickly. The sheer number of mouths to feed, the lousy supply network, the tiny amount of supplies that are created...it all adds up quickly.

Is it something new, do you think, or is it something you might only have noticed now you're looking? I know from experience how easy it is to over look something in that theater just because of everything else going on elsewhere, and the sheer hideousness of the Chinese situation.

Sorry I didn't get back to this earlier.

I can't say for sure if it is something that existed from the start. When I started the game, I was rather overwhelmed and China (and logistics generally) didn't get my full attention. I suspect, that things were goofed up at the start, but only became apparent as the starting stockpiles were consumed.

I've been working around the problem for quite a while now. Most places it doesn't seem to have a big effect, but China in another matter. Some places in Australia were messed up, but seem ok now. For example, I had been sending xAKL's into some small bases like Derby, just so they had a 1,000 or so supply as there is no RR communication to the north coast. I noticed that the base had about 100 supply before and after a xAKL unloaded 1,000 or 1,700 supply, it still showed only 106 supply the next day. Of course, there is no rational way to have this rate of consuption. These were isolated bases, with tiny base forces. I kept shoveling in the supplies to see what would happen. Later, thousands of supply just "showed up" there. The same thing happened at Cairns, where I wanted to build up 20,000 for my B-17 group. The supplies seem to disappear, and only after much extra shipping did I get a good stockpile there. The game seems to lose track of certain things. Maybe my quartermasters are selling it all on the black market.

With regard to China, I never did lose control of Rangoon. I can't tell how much goes from Rangoon into China, but it doesn't seem like much. Supply levels in Rangoon don't go down very fast.

Remember that a base will try and not release supply onwards to the logistics net until it has 3 times it's needed supply. This is true even if you have set the draw values to a higher level.

I thought about this and turned off my stockpile at Chungking, and some others. I had about 25,000 sup. there. Next day 10,000 less. Levels went up about 3,500 at Canton, 1,500 at Anyang. I'm not sure where the rest of it went. Part of the problem, I think, is it is very hard to know where it is going. Apparently, it can move in a single day, and is not "on the road".

The locations which seem to be the worst are:
Yenan, Kukong, Paotow, and Nanyang.

Kukong is especially odd, as there is a major rail line to Changsha which has a relatively good supply level. Any units I move there will gradually use up their supply, then start to wither. After I move them out, they get supply again. It makes no sense.

Something else, that bugs me is that in a big stack, some units get full (or even more) supply, while others may get only a little. HQ units always seem to be fully supplied (if there is any), combat units come next, base forces and construction units seem to have the lowest priority.