Supply & logistics

Each side's points pay for ships, docks, coal and soldiers, e.g. an A round costs 5 points, a day's coal 1, a fort 200; towns lose points if bombarded. Merchant freight points double per 100 miles and can be captured; one side may lose food points daily. Exhaustion of reserve points means defeat; using three quarters of coal reduces waterline armour one grade.

The exhaustion of reserve points on either side thus makes a defeat of that side.

Truck, depot and other supply markers project a 12 inch radius, and a base is in supply if it starts its activation inside it or within 1 inch of an in-supply friendly base. Out-of-supply bases move randomly and get -1 Firepower. Operations add markers (Supply Convoy, Air Supply, Supply Train) or remove them (Ambush), and Chinese units that touch Allied supply are suppressed by Looting.

Supply markers exert supply radius of 12” and all bases within this radius are counted “in supply.”

Each Victuals and coin action gives 2d6 points. Household retinue and other soldiers consume one point each for the battle; mercenaries and artillery consume three each. Any unit without an allocated point must take a loyalty test under the battle rules in use.

Household retinue troops and other soldiers consume one point for the battle; mercenary troops consume three points; any artillery unit consumes three points.

Limited gunpowder means a bombardment cannot be followed by a skirmish action, as troops must wait for new powder. A successful American sortie can capture enemy powder and food.

Limited gunpowder means that a bombardment may not be followed by a skirmish, as troops must wait for new powder supplies.

Units out of supply must move back into supply; each turn out of supply each battalion and cavalry regiment loses 1d6/2 (round up) figures to desertion (-1 for grenadiers/guards, +1 for militia). Four brigades spending a full turn in a box while in supply create a new depot. The optional intricate system counts mouths (1 per figure, 10 per horse, doubled), rolls box supply values, and depletes boxes by 10-20% per occupied turn.

If you are within 4 roads of a depot, you are in supply. You cannot purposely march out of supply.

Every six moves players surrender one packet of food per thirty men, forage per six horses, and ammunition per thirty infantry that fired for six consecutive moves, which must be within six feet of infantry or eighteen of cavalry. Unsupplied troops are out of action after six moves, infantry without ammunition cannot fire, and surrounded forces surrender four moves after eating their last horse. The extensions also suggest one supply wagon per fifty men within six moves.

The players must give up, every six moves, one packet of food per thirty men; one packet of forage per six horses; one packet of ammunition per thirty infantry which fire for six consecutive moves.

One figure is placed every 5" along a road or every 1" across country; hostile cavalry straddling the road gives the army a supply problem, feeding the surrender mechanism.

A line is traced by placing one mule skinner figure (in my games, white goats) every 5 inches along a road or every 1 inch across open country.

After each month of siege both sides roll d10 for disease (besieger -1; besieged -1 after the first month): 0 loses 2 elements, 1 loses 1. City supplies last 6 weeks, 4 with extra troops. Forced marching risks 10% straggling per element per week.

After each month's siege, roll (D10) for each side to determine loss due to disease.

Fuel boxes on the data sheet are spent each turn equal to speed (-1 diving, +1 climbing); a manoeuvre needing more fuel than remains cannot be chosen. Out of fuel or with a destroyed engine the aircraft must glide using manoeuvres 2, 3 or 8, losing altitude. Fuel tank hits remove 6 boxes or explode.

Each player must cross off fuel boxes equal to the speed number of the maneuver performed.

Withdrawals must be towards the base or line of communication; units cut off from it can be forced to surrender. Losing a base ends the campaign (Staunton's capture decided it).

the commander of each side's forces to declare what road exits were to be considered his army's line of communication, supply and retreat. Thus, if units were cut off they would be forced to surrender

Table III gives 24-hour coal consumption as a percentage of full bunkers by speed, and commanders hand in coal remaining each move. Destroyers and torpedo boats have stepped speed reductions per 400-500 miles run, limits on spurts (100/50 miles per 24 hours), regain a step per 24/48 hours in port, and destroyers may not be absent more than five days from fleet or base.

TABLE III.-Coal consumption for twenty-four hours in percentages of full