Units supported from enemy provinces?
Playing 1.06 (clean install + patch), '36 scenario as the US, it gets to 1941 or so, and finally my WE gets high enough to join in the war. Load up some troops onto transports, and invade Western France directly from the US. I take the first province, then split off a defending force of 3 marines to hold it while the other 9 head off elsewhere. Odd thing was the the three that I split off became supported from Grenoble, which was at that time in Italian hands.
With some experimentation, I discovered that if you select "create new unit", and move any number of forces to a new unit (up to and including all of them), the new unit becomes supported from wildly varying places. Some defaulted to Plymouth, some to Grenoble, some to Arlon, some to Brtistol, some to Antwerpen.
It does make me wonder though if that is WAD. As such you can resolve logistics distance problems easily by simply "creating new unit" to the entire unit, and it gets supplied by some province that the unit has never been near. No need to "drop by" a friendly province along the way.
Playing 1.06 (clean install + patch), '36 scenario as the US, it gets to 1941 or so, and finally my WE gets high enough to join in the war. Load up some troops onto transports, and invade Western France directly from the US. I take the first province, then split off a defending force of 3 marines to hold it while the other 9 head off elsewhere. Odd thing was the the three that I split off became supported from Grenoble, which was at that time in Italian hands.
With some experimentation, I discovered that if you select "create new unit", and move any number of forces to a new unit (up to and including all of them), the new unit becomes supported from wildly varying places. Some defaulted to Plymouth, some to Grenoble, some to Arlon, some to Brtistol, some to Antwerpen.
It does make me wonder though if that is WAD. As such you can resolve logistics distance problems easily by simply "creating new unit" to the entire unit, and it gets supplied by some province that the unit has never been near. No need to "drop by" a friendly province along the way.
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