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Originally Posted by gila
Maybe he is trying to supply too many and too soon for units which may have reduced but adequate ammo?
Most Tanks and infantry have more than enough for a battle, topping them off is a waste of time and strategy,best to leave the ammo units near Arty parks where they belong.
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You may need to have an ammo unit near the front to top up critical ammo though. or simply rip through it so fast that you require such - my BA-20 scout cars are down to 18 or so rounds less than half way through my first LC battle versus the Japanese as Nationalist China for example. And they come with 120 MG bursts!
And that might also be his source of confusion, come to think of it.
Ammo loads in "bin" order, as it is an array of 2 by 4 elements
HE is bin 0, and AP is bin 1.
There are 4 weapon slots, 0-3.
So weapon 0 fills HE, then AP. Followed by weapons 1-3 in ammo bin order.
HEAT and APCR are
not in the ammo array - they seem to have been added later on as individual bytes in the unit template data. (That is why they only apply to weapon slot No 1, and why all the kludgery with 222 HEAT codes had to be tacked on later to allow for panzerfausts etc in non slot 1 weapons). I have not checked the code, but the HEAT and APCR bins may well load
after the regular ammo array.
Smoke dischargers are attributes, and not considered ammo. They do not load from ammo trucks. (Hmm thinks - they do exist in Mobhack as a template value per-unit so
could be reloaded - the code knows what X was originally - I may look into that one).
Same with smoke rounds - they are a unit attribute (like a radio), and not an ammo item tied to any weapon slot as such. So don't get refreshed by ammo units. (Smoke could never be reloaded since the amount of ammo is generated at game start for each unit randomly, and no account is kept of that number. It is not an ammo value stored in unit template data - it is not available in Mobhack as an item. So an ammo unit could
never top it up as it does
not know what the
original X was to top to).
So - if the original poster is waiting for HEAT or HVAP, then he will need to wait on the entire weapons bin filling first. And if he expects smoke or S/D to reload, he will be whistling for a quite a while
!.
Cheers
Andy