zooter wrote:I'm sure something has been posted about this, but I can't find it. I don't understand supply in this game.
Now playing France my Allies don't show supply amounts when I press the #2 key, but they still supply me, correct?
Yes. You can only see the supplies in your own depots.
zooter wrote:Or do they just pass along supplies from my country?
Your supplies can pass through any region where you have Supply Rights; maybe Passage Rights too, but I haven't tested that.
zooter wrote:How come my units run out of supply when in in an allied country, example French unit in the Italian area that was given them by Pressburg.
Because supply production and distribution hasn't keep up with consumption. I don't know how much supply minor factions produce, but certainly not as much as France.
zooter wrote:How come I can't build a depot in an allied country?
You need at least 25% MC to build a depot. You cannot gain MC in an allied region, therefore you cannot build a depot there.
It's a simple game mechanic, which if lifted would then basically be giving your ally a depot, which still only moves that ally's supplies. I can't think of any way the game might allow for a French depot on foreign soil, other than by changing some code to allow it.
zooter wrote:I took an Austrian depot and after three turns all it has in it is a lot of ammo and no supplies, its connected back to Italy by a road that the French have 100% control of all the way back.
I understood how supply worked in TEAW but this game baffles me.
The Kingdom of Italy is its own nation. Although you can draw supplies from it, its depots will not transport your (French) supplies. The best solution I can think of would be to capture an Austrian harbor on the Adria, but a depot in it and use naval supply to keep it in supply. Then build a chain of depots leading from that harbor to your forces.
Your forces are using GS every turn, but using Ammo only when they are fighting. Thus GS can be used up to the point that only Ammo is left in a depot.
Is this problematic for having a large force in a third nation, with an second allied nation where you have/can have no depots, between the third nation and your home land?
Without having played the French, but simply looking at the map, I can see that France could have great problems in keeping their forces supplied when invading Austria through Bavaria, since they cannot build depots in Bavaria.