[Charles22]

Well how's about getting back on track ammo truck-wise then?

I post the following as a point of consideration for campaigners against the AI, how scripted campaigns would work in this regard, I do not know.

It occurs to me that the AI doesn't use ammo trucks (or buy them), and therefore that usually is giving the player an unfair advantage, just like airdropping when we know the AI cannot do the same thing. There are limits to this needless to say, that we should never do anything because the AI does them not, but the question should always be on our minds to police ourselves and see if we aren't giving ourselves a large advantage, and then, perhaps, complain how the AI is terribly lacking, when we have a significant part in the blame.

As for me, I have been using ammo trucks with my forces, but it's to somewhat shore up a disadvanatge I often suffer from the AI, so it's not a great advantage by any means. And that is I use the one of the two ammo trucks I have, primarily to feed the four IG's in core. That and a core 100mm btry are usually all the artillery I have, so you can see how giving the IG's more ammo isn't too bad to somewhat match the AI having much more artillery than I do. On rare occasions, usually after the battle is already half way through, I may have a need for that 2nd ammo truck to add ammo to some of the units who had really lost a lot of ammo. Yes, that is an advantage over the AI. Not a significant advantage for the most part, particularly since it's so late in the fight they're used, and because it is only one truck for that, so the re-supply amount isn't terribly great.

If I am correct, the AI wouldn't use ammo trucks well anyway. Probably do lame things like march with the advance and start feeding front line AFV's. OTOH, getting units that are depleted to go to some safe zone to meet it would probably take a programming miracle this game would not have attempted.

Just something to consider in your gaming.