[WarInEur] Supply by Air

[Chuck Sutherland]

I would tend to agee that air supply should be limited to at most 
defense supply to give units full combat defense power. And the 
attrition for ATPs should be large for the efforts. The germans supplied 
some of their pockets early on but it cost them aircraft.

I would hate to see units on the offensive supplied by air, it just 
doesn't seem right to me that air assets would be wasted in this manor. 
In a crisis situation where your troops need help and are in danger of 
elimination, but otherwise the ability to supply by air was really 
limited and the air was needed for other uses.

Karl Gaarsoe wrote:
> Actually, a lot of the "Airlift" resupply you are discussing is 
> already built into BWiE with the generous supply ranges. 
>
> IIRC, historically, most of of the Day-to-Day Luftwaffe effort went to 
> support ongoing Luftwaffe efforts, lifting parts, ordanance and even 
> gas to Forward operating bases. 
>
> Same with the Allies, Patton may have received some airlifted fuel, 
> but this was (is) covered by the standard 10 MP supply chain.
>
> But supporting an OOS airhead?  Certainly NOT to the extent of 
> supporting Minor Supply. 
>
> Let's keep the focus of the game on broad Strategy, with a fine 
> grained operational combat resolution.  Any fiddling with this kind of 
> rule just opens the door to abuse by clever rules lawyers.
>
> Karl Gaarsoe
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