[Submod] Optional & Experimental - Niklas' Supply Submod

**UMCenturion** · May 18, 2018, 07:52 PM

Wonderful news, we have our script for the supply mechanic! Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to test this. So we are leaving it up to you! Please subscribe here if you are interested in the army supplies submod. Niklas will be by to answer any details you may have. When all goes well, we will wind up integrating this fully into the main pack.

"When a force sets out on campaign, it will start consuming supplies. Depending on it’s environment and stances supplies may be consumed faster, slower or even gathered. Moving a force around a lot increases it’s supply usage. When the force is defeated supplies are lost, when battles are won, supplies will be gained."

- The current available supplies of an army can be viewed when hovering over the supply icon on the general card in the bottom-left corner.

Optional Supply Mechanic by Niklas Download here

**sinuhe2** · May 18, 2018, 11:55 PM

Ill try whrn ill come back frpm work, why arent you hired by CA?
very good ideas

**Maetharin** · May 19, 2018, 02:28 AM

Would be cool to have a full breakdown of the mechanic to read here!
Do current supplies influence upkeep cost?
Is there a foraging mechanic? Can foodstuff be bought instead of stolen?
Will men be put on reduced rations once supplies have dropped to a certain amount?
Et cetera, et cetera.

Will test it out as soon as I´m no longer in stress about University

Also, have you guys thought about making a submod subforum?
With official submods obviously being stickied.

I´d love to share my new shields for Seleucids once I´ve finished

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**TheAeneas** · May 19, 2018, 12:21 PM

Looked really cool from the description, but it seems to break MP games

**UMCenturion** · May 19, 2018, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by TheAeneas

Looked really cool from the description, but it seems to break MP games

Thanks - we will work on getting that fixed.

**Sarkiss** · May 20, 2018, 04:07 PM

it seems to take too long to deplete supplies atm? i have besieged Corinth as Makedon for several turns (a few in-game years) and even though the city and its garrison was starving (there seems to be a massive food shortage in effect for the Achaeans) my supplies stayed 'full' throughout.

great and absolutely essential add-on, imho. keep up good work.:-)

**mati_motorloco** · May 21, 2018, 08:29 AM

PLEASE non steam link for this little submod will be much appreciated

**UMCenturion** · May 21, 2018, 11:29 PM

Non steam links will come once we get settled more. Right now we are maneuvering so many things, i dont want to make it more complicated and provide bad links by mistake.

**mati_motorloco** · May 22, 2018, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by UMCenturion

Non steam links will come once we get settled more. Right now we are maneuvering so many things, i dont want to make it more complicated and provide bad links by mistake.

thank you, I'll just be more patient, keep up the good work!

**Maetharin** · June 14, 2018, 09:55 PM

Just a little idea I had, and I‘m wondering about its feasibility.

Would it be possible to have armies without the ability to move, but a radius around it within which armies are supplied?
I‘m thinking along the lines of DeI supply ships, but land based and without movement range.

IIRC there was a script a while back for AE which made it possibly to spawn new armies next to an existing army.
I would love to see a future for this script in an in depth supply mechanic.

Whenever an army is outside a certain radius of the nearest settlement or such a “supply depot“ army,
it could spawn new depots, thus dynamically furthering its operational range.

Since these supply depots would be fantastic strategic targets, they could then be strengthened by units an army left behind,
thus simulating the need to protect one‘s supply lines, especially if operating without these were to dramatically increase food consumption and costs.
Of course, the longer the supply lines, and thus the higher the amount of supply depots, the costlier it is to uphold them, and the more vulnerable they‘d be.

IIRC the biggest issue of the script back then had to do with its ability to ignore any manpower system,
and theoretically make it possible to just spawn an I finite amount of armies.
But if these armies were headed by a Supply depot unit, and were without any movement range, this wouldn’t cause any problems.