Re: Supply Lines

From: "James Blessing" <james@zen.co.uk>

Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Just a couple of  thoughts...

If you use buildings as the primary source for the distribution of 'supply'
effort then its quite easy to to allow them to generate the supply points in
the first place.  For example assuming a regiment requires an upkeep of 1
per turn then the smallest size of habitation, perhaps village, would then
produce 1 point of supply - thios would equate to village ebing able to
afford to look after them and nothing more.  Larger habitations would
produce much greater amounts (4,16,32,64) but they would be forced to
redistribute the points to smaller habitations that require support.  These
points would only accumilate at a % of their actual value, ( eg 20%) if not
spent that turn.

Add to this a 'range' function that means that armies outside a radius based
on the size of the habitation are not supplied by that one at full capacity
but only a decreaseing percentage will require the creation of supply
depots. The act like habitations but they don't have a generation function,
but much larger range.

Management functions for the surpluses and distribution would need to be
automated to remove the drudgery of maintaince by the player but still
require them to keep an eye on their supply chain and use it against an
opponent.

IMHO the best solution is not supply lines persay but rather supply points,
that have a fluidic quality.

References

Supply Lines
bharts@my-deja.com
Sat, 02 Dec 2000 02:18:49 +0000
Re: Supply Lines
Henry <henry@penninkilampi.net>
Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000