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Easy Logistics	comment	If the day-long battle and hundreds of men that fought it stupefy you, figuring out the much greater amounts of time and individuals it took to get those men there will really send your jaw to the floor. Any modern armed force in Real Life must receive a steady supply of fuel, ammunition and other provisions in order to be able to operate. There are countless examples of armies being fatally weakened or even dissolving completely due to insufficient supplies. In some types of combat, such as air-to-air, ammo and fuel supplies can even set an absolute hard limit on how long an engagement can go on; combat airplanes, for instance, may well expend all their munitions in a single pass. Therefore securing supply lines is a vital part of any military operation. In games with a military theme, save the most serious wargames and grand strategy games, this aspect is usually dealt with in the background without the player having to worry unduly about it. Sometimes, however, this aspect is portrayed in an egregiously unrealistic fashion, with the forces depicted being mostly or entirely liberated from logistical constraints. Airplanes will normally be the exception, if anything is, as chances are they'll be restrained by their fuel capacity or their ammo; once one of such is depleted, they usually have to return to a nearby landing strip (or, if the military is advanced enough, provided with in-flight (mid-air) refueling, which then means they have to have additional bases capable of providing for tanker planes along the way). This is for both stylistic and balance reasons: it would be overpowered to have an infinite bombing run, and the aircraft carriers have to do something. Some of the most egregious examples are repair units. These little buggers can fix a heavy tank from near disintegrated state in a matter of seconds with any needed spare parts being pulled out of hammerspace (otherwise the unit would be carrying an entire tank in spare parts around) without making the repair crew actually get out, or even immobilizing the repaired unit for a short time. The latter part includes repairing an attack helicopter hovering over the repair unit. These guys are hardcore. Shoot them first. In its milder form this is an acceptable break from reality, but it is often abused to make fantastic scenarios take place in ostensibly realistic settings. However, at least some of the listed aversions prove that a "deficit management" game is not only inherent in any logistics model worthy of being named so, but can also make interesting challenges in itself. As they say in the military: "Amateurs study tactics. Professionals study logistics." Usually seen along with Easy Communication and Command & Conquer Economy. Contrast Wizard Needs Food Badly and Resources Management Gameplay. A subtrope is Automaton Horses, which addresses the ease of keeping horses fed, watered and healthy in fiction. Another major component of this trope is a Global Currency, because it eliminates the need to calculate exchange rates and manage additional kinds of resources based off that. Apocalyptic Logistics is a setting-based Sub-Trope where the logistics are easy despite the collapse of society.
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Easy Logistics / int_1063bb9	comment	In The Black Emperor, building new 7th Generation Knightmare Frames or even replacing Gloucesters is a serious trial for Cornelia's forces in Area Eleven. Because Clovis never had a high spec production facility built, all Gloucesters have to be shipped from the mainland rather than manufactured in Area Eleven. Meanwhile, the Lancelot is a unique Knightmare which means every part is custom made, so even repairing the badly damaged Frame would take weeks. Furthermore, Cecile and Lloyd explain to Cornelia that it'd take months to properly design a 7th Generation Knightmare that any but the absolute best pilots could use, partially due to all the downgrades they'd have to make while still maintaining it's high performance.
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Easy Logistics / int_13aa3120	comment	Mostly averted in Advanced Strategic Command. You can do just about anything, but still Can't Get Away with Nuthin' — almost everything requires expended resources and a proper Worker Unit; lots of these are needed to keep the war machine running. Planes need buildable but expensive runways. Helicopters don't, but cannot be refueled in flight. Units lose XP for major repair and are mostly repaired inside of something. Field repair vehicles can service only units standing on the ground, not just anything one hex away; field repair is less cost-efficient and sometimes limited (an unit with minFieldRepairDamage=20 can't be restored above 80% health/strength).
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Easy Logistics / int_13f21e09	comment	Company of Heroes: The game uses a territory control resource model like Dawn of War, from the same studio. In its case, if a territory section doesn't have a continuous chain of captured sections linking it back to headquarters, it doesn't add any resources to the pool until the lines are connected. The supply of ammo and fuel to individual units on the field is rolled into the resource model: fuel and munitions are generic, and using special abilities or getting individual upgrades like hand grenades and sub-machine guns respectively use up munitions while buying advanced units and global upgrades use up fuel (and what you get permanently with both resources does not cause more upkeep on the resource to maintain, though having units causes an upkeep reducing your income on the separate manpower resource). Units must be next to a reinforcement area in order to replace their missing squad members (such as your headquarters or a forward barracks), but a single halftrack on a distant corner of the map can provide a reinforcement area to replenish numerous devastated squads repeatedly just so long as you have the manpower resource to do so (the actual vehicles tend to hold up to ten passengers at best, on that note). In the case of paratroops, they are allowed to reinforce anywhere, with the replacements dropped one at a time from wave after wave of apparently-underloaded cargo planes. One notable area where the game averts this trope is with the first aid stations, which depict medics running out onto the battlefield to retrieve individual downed soldiers. As stated in the main article above, this is rather egregious with repair-capable units like the Engineers/Pioneers/Sappers. While it's probably a little more realistic that the Bergetiger has storage for spare parts to repair a Kettenkrad, it's not really so that it can restore a heavy tank wreck an infinite amount of times on the spot(considering the "Berge"-type vehicles were AR Vs designed to tow the wrecks back to a safe place to be repaired with help outside of the ARV). Gets totally ridiculous when the inverse happens: a Tank Destroyer doctrine-enabled Kettenkrad restoring an almost destroyed Bergetiger, or any super heavy vehicle for that matter.
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Easy Logistics / int_15d05f51	comment	In one The Hardy Boys: Casefiles book, the boys fly an airplane across large portions of America. They stop for gas. That is, regular unleaded, seeing as the jet is a prototype intended for use as a "family flying car". As such, it doesn't seem to need much maintenance either.
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Easy Logistics / int_15e2ff83	comment	Dark Sun: Desert survival was an important part of the tabletop setting, but in the games those mechanics were not implemented. Food and water are not consumed, heat strokes do not happen. The first game in the series does contain what may be leftovers of water-related mechanics: there are pots and buckets that can be filled with water in several key points, NPCs warn the player how important the water is, but none of it affects the gameplay.
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Easy Logistics / int_1619d68e	comment	Tree of Aeons mentions that many generals have Skills to make logistics easier, such as reducing an army's hunger. Aeon is betting on them having limits, however; if he can cut off supply lines entirely, they won't be able to hold.
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Easy Logistics / int_169f043b	comment	Handwaved in StarCraft. Terrans need to build supply depots to support more units and Protoss warp everything in from their cities. Zerg use an organic mat called the creep to circulate nutrients to their structures. Brood War manages to avert it from a story perspective for the UED strike force. The second mission of their campaign is a raid on a shipyard, specifically to gain battlecruisers to supplement their fleet (and deny them to the enemy). They are the main power of the sector by the end of their campaign, but are spread too thin to properly garrison everything. This allows Kerrigan to take them down by first targeting them on Braxis (destroying their vital Psi Disrupter in the process), then Korhal, and finally their main base of operations on Char. After their final defeat, they have no option but to try and flee back to Earth, only for Kerrigan to hunt them down and kill them.
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Easy Logistics / int_16d191f7	comment	Similarly it is averted in Homefront where Invaded States of America setting happens because of a lack of proper oil supplies (most of the oil wells in the Middle East were destroyed in a war between Iran and Saudi-Arabia who both have Nukes). It actually becomes a major point in the game's as every level except save for the Final mission are focused on La RÃ©sistance trying to steal an convoy of oil-filled tanker trucks for the U.S. Army.
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Easy Logistics / int_176eaec	comment	Averted. Weapons either have their own ammunition or drain energy from the robot, and air or space movement also costs one energy per movement panel. It's possible, though somewhat difficult, to have a unit unable to move because of lack of energy, although they can still move enough to fire weapons or even whack another robot with a sword from a few tiles away. This also doesn't explain why, for example, Mazinkaiser is holding 99 missiles in its torso.
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Easy Logistics / int_1773eb11	comment	Star Ruler: Played with. Your ships will spawn with a full load of ammo and fuel, but they will deplete them as they fight and fly around — though how fast depends on how many guns it has, subsystem modifiers, the size of the ammo/fuel caches, ship mass, engine size, etc. Ships (by default) will automatically fly to planets and designated "tenders" / "tankers" to reload their ammo and refuel, though not always in a way that makes sense. However, the player will need to keep a constant stream of tender ships moving in and out to supply a fleet that lacks sufficient ammo/fuel storage capacity. In the Galactic Armory Game Mod, fuel and ammunition are resources that must be built in planetary factories or via ship subsystems, which are then exported into the Galactic Bank (your empire-wide resource pool). Good luck invading that enemy system if your ships are sputtering out of fuel and can't load their guns! Star Ruler 2 slides a bit towards the easy end, making upgrades instantly propagate among your fleets, to counter the annoyance of SR1's ships being "obsolete" within minutes of producing them in the mid-game forcing a nigh-endless series of retrofits. Resupplying is done automatically in friendly systems.
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Easy Logistics / int_17bfcf60	comment	Averted in the original Homeworld RTS. Sure, you had your main base being apparently self-sufficient in space, but since the thing's roughly the size of the Death Star and mobile, whatever. Fighters, on the other time, had limited fuel. Micromanaging this proved enough of a nuisance to enough players that the sequel went back to standard RTS Logistics. Homeworld: Cataclysm Hand Waves this in the manual by claiming that the Somtaaw have acquired highly-efficient fusion engines from the Bentusi.
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Easy Logistics / int_19111c21	comment	Semi-averted in Master of Magic. Resources are generalized, but normal troops need two: Gold and Food. Upkeeping enchantments and summoned units eats Mana which you also need for spellcasting and research. Juggling all 3, city production and armies all at once while dealing with opponents can be hard. But how the food gets to the armies that are outside cities and nowhere near any type of (nonexistent) supply lines is never addressed. E.g. a dragon turtle can sit in the middle of the ocean for the entire game as long as you are producing sufficient food and gold to pay for its upkeep. Units with ranged attacks are given a limited number of shots, but warships have 99 even though normal catapults and airships has only 10.
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Easy Logistics / int_19254472	comment	In Stars! (1995), the only resource your ships need to worry about is fuel and/or cargo.
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Easy Logistics / int_19350db9	comment	In the Master of Orion series, ships carried a limited number of missiles while energy (and projectile) weapons had infinite ammo. They could remain indefinitely in deep space or orbiting uninhabited planets. Since fuel cells limited how far you could go from a world you occupy, you can assume a fleet of tenders or something like that. Transporting food to all your colonies may be problematic depending on population, techs chosen, and the quality of the planets. In an aversion, a fleet operating far from the players home base will often have to stop and rendezvous with reinforcements. This isn't written into the rules but is simply part of the game mechanic; the effect is a simple and elegant way to show logistics problems while not drowning the player in paperwork.
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Easy Logistics / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	Endless Sky does require the player to restock hyperspace fuel and missiles. However, the reactors that power every other ship system can keep operating forever, including flying around at sublight speeds, without any kind of top-up. Even more egregiously, hull repair technology can entirely rebuild the ship's exterior without any material input. And anything on the menu at an outfitter or shipyard can be bought instantly in unlimited quantity.
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Easy Logistics / int_1e1e273e	comment	Codename Panzers: Averted in the broad gameplay. Armies are what you bring with you, purchased through "requisition points" earned during missions. There are realistic limits on how much ammo each unit can carry — save for infantry (unlimited bullets but limited special weapons such as grenades) and, surprisingly, supply and repair vehicles, both of which have unlimited amounts of supply on Easy mode. Compensated for by that fact that supply vehicles are EXTREMELY vulnerable (being depicted in-game as picket-style flatbed trucks). Playing the game as either British or American forces makes you wonder how the Allies won the war — as there's never enough requisition to allow the Americans to utilize swarm tactics as they did in WWII — and the less said about the British "land fortress" concept, the better. Heavily disputable regarding the Western Allies: in reality they never really did use swarm tactics save as an absolute last resort, and it is fairly easy to win when you know what you are doing: simply put, shell shell shell, flank flank flank, repair and reload every chance you get, and do what you can to avoid going head to head with German (or Soviet, for that matter) heavy armor. It's difficult and it leaves you scrounging a LOT of arty and supplies from every battle, but once you get a your units up in XP, they'll pay their way more or less by themselves.
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Easy Logistics / int_1e2f3037	comment	Somewhat averted in Gadget Trial. While all units have unlimited ammo, they have limited fuel and (since the game doesn't have a resupply unit) must return to friendly bases every few turns. True to the trope, air units have the smallest "fuel tanks" (having to return to base every 10 turns).
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Easy Logistics / int_20336460	comment	Jagged Alliance 2 gives you two automobiles (a Humvee and an ice cream truck) as well as the ability to rent a helicopter. You have to keep the ground vehicles fueled, which is tough as the Queen rations it. The helicopter you rent, so you don't have to worry directly about fuel, though he will say he has to head back to base to refuel if he hangs around an area too long.
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Easy Logistics / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Played mostly straight in every game in the series, though there are a few aversions here and there. One of the mainstays in the series is the fact that dead units cannot be revived, making it unique for an RPG series and enforcing the importance of conserving numbers in a small army. There's also the fact that weapons have durability, even the magical Infinity+1Sword the main character swings around (most of the time), meaning you have to constantly keep every individual unit's equipment restocked. Slight aversion in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. It's difficult to stick to a set party that continually gets more powerful with level ups like the other games in the series or in fact any other Strategy Role Playing Game despite what you'd expect. This is due to a fatigue meter that makes units tire out if they're deployed in too many subsequent battles, forcing you to switch around your party to keep them fresh.
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Easy Logistics / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: Turns up depending on the needs of the plot, as vermin tend to have no idea how to get food other than extorting it from their victims. Redwall being a fortified abbey with an orchard and a pond usually has little problem keeping itself fed, while the ravening hordes outside pillage the forest for what little food they can find. Lord Brocktree has Ungatt Trunn's truly massive hordes run into problems after they take Salamandastron, running out of food and considering eating prisoners. It get worse for them later when the Bark Crew start targeting their forage parties, waiting until they gather food to steal it and send the vermin back to the fortress empty-handed, hungry and humiliated (and one of the crew's mother yells at her son because they're running out of space to store the food). Another book has Salamandastron under siege from a vermin army, with the defenders tossing half-eaten food they can't spare to the starving vermin outside to lower their morale.
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Easy Logistics / int_22fa3992	comment	Zigzagged on The Expanse. While the show does say how important resources are and how dangerous it can be to run out of them (especially anywhere in the Colonized Solar System that isn't Mars) exactly where the resources come from that allows humanity build and arm large fleets of spaceships or feed their enormous populations (Earth's population is over thirty billion as of the start of the show), isn't fully elaborated on. However, the issue of logistics does become critical in the sixth and final season. After Marco Inaros successfully struck Earth and Mars with asteroids covered with stealth technology and declares the independence of the Belt, it soon becomes readily apparent that the Belt simply cannot grow the food needed to keep itself fed without trade with the Inner Planets. Marco, now the de facto dictator of the Belt, refuses to make any such deal with the Inners and doesn't have the skill or patience to be bothered with worrying about the logistics of supporting a large civilian population. The result is that within six months of what could have easily been a decisive blow against the Inners, Marco has basically squandered his advantage, since he isn't able to transform the Belt into a self-sufficient society, and the fact that he obviously intends to slowly kill off both Earth and Mars by continuing to chuck asteroids at them forces the bitter rivals to combine their efforts in order to defeat him.
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Easy Logistics / int_2372359	comment	Strongly averted in The Belgariad. During the build-up to climactic warfare in the last book of the main series, King Fulrach becomes the de facto commander of the army because his country is the breadbasket of the region and he knows how to get the necessary supplies to everyone. Others lead the actual battles, but he decides where they can fight and how long it will take to get there. On the historical side, it was mentioned that the only reason the Angarak army stopped besieging the Algarian Stronghold and moved on to Vo Mimbre in a previous war was because after six years of trying to breach the walls, they were running out of things to forage for food.
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Easy Logistics / int_247422c7	comment	While the actual fight takes place off-page, several books in the Honor Harrington series mention the importance of taking Trevor's Star because of its logistical importance. Because it's connected to Manticore by the wormhole nexus, once it is secure, they can use the wormhole to ship supplies and reinforcements from Manticore to the front and damaged ships back in a matter of hours rather than weeks, making logistics trivial. It also has the added bonus of removing a major avenue of attack the Havenites could use, allowing the Manticorans to reduce the resources they need to use manning the wormhole defenses.
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Easy Logistics / int_2640faa8	comment	In The Last Star, this is the main problem for the Minbari: they are winning decisively against Earth, but EarthForce has savaged their merchant fleet and their industrial production is inadequate, and they're dangerously coming close to the point they'll have to stop for months and let EarthForce regroup right when warships that can actually pose a threat to the superior Minbari ships are starting being produced.
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Easy Logistics / int_2acb12c5	comment	X-Universe: Averted. Your ships will run out of ammunition for their cannons, they will run out of energy for their jump drives, and they will run out of Mosquito anti-missile munitions. Fighters docked to carriers will sustain losses, and you will need to buy more or order damaged fighters to repair a shipyard — manually (unless you download a script to do it all for you). This isn't even played fully straight with energy weapons. Each ship has only so much energy available for weapons to fire at full force, and the ship can only replenish that energy so quickly, though a ship can continue to fire at a fraction of the speed when the energy runs out. And as each cannon and cannon type have separate power draws, on some of the smaller ships this turns into a game of how much firepower a pilot can load onto a ship without sapping the energy dry in one burst. Played straight with shipboard consumables (e.g. sublight fuel, crew food and water), which never need to be restocked, though the Flavor Text on some ships note spacious cargo holds for provisions on long flights. Enforced with spaceship fuel. There is no need for refueling in the series, presumably to make it easier for players to get into the series. What kind of fuel vessels run on is yet to be revealed by the developers and left for the player's imagination. "Space fuel" cargo is a misnomer, as it is actually a contraband alcoholic drink often found from the destroyed remains of pirate vessels, and a newcomer to the series won't realize the cargo they're carrying and will get chased by the specific sector's Space Police. X: Rebirth takes some steps in alleviate the logistics nightmare of previous games, at least in regards to fleet resupply. In previous games, Carriers were a nightmare to manage without a carrier automation script, as new fighters had to be acquired from a shipyard, new weapons and upgrades had to be sourced as fighters only came with half their max weapons loadout, then the fighters had to be docked to the carrier and typically assigned to a flight wing. And with the earlier games' signature Artificial Stupidity and Wall Bonking, fighter attrition rates could be atrocious and bring financial ruin. In Rebirth, all capital ships now launch autonomous Attack Drones which while weaker than fighters, are significantly easier and cheaper to replace.
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Easy Logistics / int_2d1fc03e	comment	Further changed in Front Mission 4, so that all ranged weapons, along with a few other special abilities added to the installment, have a limited number of ammo or charges. If a weapon runs out of ammo, someone with extra ammo must spend a turn restocking them, But it still begs the question, what powers these giant mecha.
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Easy Logistics / int_2ee87bea	comment	And none of this addresses the fact that the WARSHIPS can always resupply everyone and any other unit between chapters and if you fly ANY unit into a carrier (Even the ones that shouldn't be able to fit in the carrier, like the Daitarn 3, which is most likely AS BIG AS THE CARRIER), even if the teams have been separated from any source of material for weeks on end.
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Easy Logistics / int_2f3eb71f	comment	Command & Conquer: Generals averts this one to some degree: your units never get tired or run out of fuel, and their ammo is infinite, but the ones that fire missiles do have to wait before they can reload their projectiles. By extension, this also means fighter planes and bombers must return to a nearby airport after hitting their target.
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Easy Logistics / int_326df059	comment	The trope returns on large scale in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles: when the SDF-3 Pioneer disappeared it was carrying the REF Protoculture Matrix and the one guy who knew how to make more, and while the Invid are not hostile anymore-and in fact they now have a common enemy with the REF-they have disappeared to parts unknown.
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Easy Logistics / int_32905e20	comment	The Dragon, The Hero and The Courier toys with this a lot, given that its subject matter mostly involves lowly jobs taking place in a fantasy setting. One early chapter, for instance, averts this heavily by showing an adventuring party that at first looks like the typical "four to six characters with standard RPG classes", but is tailed by a few dozen support staff to handle things like carrying supplies, weapon repair, and processing the remains and treasures of the creatures they kill.
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Easy Logistics / int_32926c5b	comment	Averted in Tarkin's Fist. Much of the conflict between the Empire and the Earth is influenced by logistical issues. When the Empire arrives in the Solar System they have limited food and water supplies and no fuel to power their hyperdrives. So they are confined to sublight speeds in the Sol System until they can acquire more hypermatter fuel. But they can't acquire more fuel until they've built the machinery and refinery to make and distill said fuel. So they can't just leave the Earth alone, go to the other side of the Milky Way and settle there. Their initial lack of supplies limits their ability to operate and requires them to either ask for help from the Earth or seize what they need by force. The Empire, being the Empire, resorts to force. The Empire takes special efforts to destroy the Earth's infrastructure, annihilating bridges, railways, highways, ports, and factories to hamper the Earth's ability to build and ship war material to the front. Much of the story is dedicated to the Earth's attempts to create an ad hoc logistical system that circumvents the Empire's attacks and keeps their troops at the front supplied.
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Easy Logistics / int_32dd8ca2	comment	A key plot point of Arpeggio of Blue Steel is that even though humanity has weapons that can fight the Fleet of Fog, they are in highly limited supply. A major part of the story is bringing the plans for the first human-producible anti-Fog weapon from the nation that designed it to a nation with the industrial capacity to produce enough of them that they can equip a fleet with them.
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Easy Logistics / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War 2: Slightly dealt with — more units do hurt your resource income. Though you still gain resources for capturing points, for whatever probably-not-realistic reason, making it likely that this was put in to help players who were currently behind their opponent(s). The game actually sidesteps that issue, too. The universal resource is Requisition, not something that goes into actual production. The more points you take, the better you're doing, and the more material your higher-ups would be willing to commit to the cause. The more stuff you have, the less willing they are to waste more on your battlefield. Soulstorm makes a vague attempt at averting this- since the game takes place across a solar system and FTL travel is blocked off by a Warp storm, some provinces give less requisition than normal (used to buy honor guard units and preplace buildings) due to lack of logistics, but the Chaos faction suffers no such drawback due to their mastery of the Warp (conquering their stronghold gives this advantage as well).
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Easy Logistics / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: Justified in the Accala, a tribe who all used the Danner formula to gain Super-Strength and Super-Toughness, enough to run as fast as a car and punch concrete to bits. This terrifies every South American government; if negotiations with the Accala break down, they can attack at a moment's notice.
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Easy Logistics / int_390a0da6	comment	Steel Battalion mostly averted this — the mech had limited fuel and limited ammunition for almost all of the weapons (including machine guns) — it could be replenished by calling in a supply helicopter (which could get shot down if you weren't careful). Mind you, if I recall correctly, it seemed to have infinite chaff and windscreen wash supplies.
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Easy Logistics / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition plays with this trope. The player character never has to worry about the daily business of running the Inquisition â€” feeding the troops, providing them arms and armour and so forth. However, those duties are handled by an in-game quartermaster: Threnn in Haven and Ser Morris in Skyhold. They can provide you Requisitions to fill for extra Power and Influence, and if you hang around them enough, their interactions with other characters will give you an idea of how difficult it is to manage the resources of a massive military/spy force. The game also frequently acknowledges that not everyone in the Inquisition is a warrior, a spy or a mage; there are many regular people who have no skill beyond scribing, cooking or carpentry, but are nonetheless crucial to the running of the organization.
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Easy Logistics / int_3ab443f8	comment	In The Alliance Alive, neither your party nor the hundreds of NPCs recruited to the Global Airship ever have to worry about food or tools. Similarly, Guild towers are constructed instantly, by one guy, and immediately filled with lavish furnishings whether they're one metre away from a city or in the middle of a snowy wilderness.
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Easy Logistics / int_3cb580c	comment	At first, this was the case for the Space Empires series. You have construction points for building things and resupply stations for your ships. As the series progressed, the resources were split, and so were the ship supplies. In the fourth game, there are three kinds of resources, along with general ship supplies and ordnance for the weapons. The trope still applies, every world gets access to the whole of the imperial resource pool, unless the system doesn't have a starport in it, regardless of the fact that it takes more than a turn to cross each system.
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Easy Logistics / int_3cc6788a	comment	Averted for A Feddie Story has logistical problems surface in one form or another repeatedly. The Federation vehicles start to run out of ammunition in Iowa, and several vehicles break down at various points in the journey and have to be abandoned. By the time they reach Minneapolis supplies of ammunition are being airlifted to them from Winnipeg, without which they would have been useless during the Battle of Saint Paul. Zeon units by then are suffering a similar issue, as their own supply lines have been cut; one of the reasons they withdraw from Saint Paul is a belief they don't have enough ammunition left to fight a pitched battle. Basic fuel and food are rarely concerns, but the reason for this is actually valid: North America is populated enough that it's not hard to find gasoline or a convenience store when regular supply isn't available.
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Easy Logistics / int_3cf15492	comment	In MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, you play as (shock) a commander of a brand-new mercenary company. While things like repairs and ammo reloads are handled by your accountants, bulking up your force is not — you can either pay the exorbitant prices on the Free Market, or salvage destroyed enemy vehicles off the battlefield. You have to pay upkeep based on your mechs and pilots, and quite a lot at that; even making an interstellar transit and not doing anything for a couple weeks is a significant expense. You're even charged for fuel used dropping your force into combat.
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Easy Logistics / int_3e8c09b9	comment	This is normally averted in Attack on Titan; the extremely specialised equipment the protagonists use to fight the Titans is prone to malfunction, and on-site repair is treated as impossible. Both the gas canisters for propulsion and the blades for chopping Titan limbs/necks are limited resources. It is mentioned in the design documents for the gear that the extremely sharp but brittle steel used for these blades are manufactured in only one location within the most interior wall. If this production stopped for any reason, the protagonists would be defenceless as soon as their supply of blades ran out.
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Easy Logistics / int_3e9c95a2	comment	In the television adaptation of Sharpe's Company, Sharpe is demoted to commanding a baggage train and laments it as being not "proper soldiering", and promptly gets a strip torn off him by Major Nairn saying that Sharpe might have been allowed to "swan around like a pirate" as a lieutenant without worrying where his supplies came from, but if he wants a lasting promotion then he needs to learn large scale logistics.
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Easy Logistics / int_40a1e7fa	comment	The players are also able to buy parts for cash to repair downed units no matter what the tactical situation is. Any unit shot down is repaired at the end of the fight, but costs money you'd probably rather use for upgrades. Apparently in the future, Radio Shack carries mech parts, and has locations in enemy territory, outer space, the future, and at the bottom of the ocean. Alpha Gaiden has a scene where the Iron Gear is said to be repaired from damage it got in a cutscene using parts from the enemy ships they destroyed, and they mention they often use enemy parts for repairing their own units. Granted, this would make more sense if units didn't tend to explode the second they run out of hit points.
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Easy Logistics / int_45819f20	comment	Warzone 2100 partially averts this. Ground based unit has infinite ammo, but VTOL units do have limited ammo, and need to be refilled.
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Easy Logistics / int_4937d0d9	comment	Sins of a Solar Empire partially averts this by requiring you to purchase levels of "fleet logistics" upgrades to train more capital ship crews and raise your fleet capacity. However, the number of available crews is not reduced when a capital ship is lost, and the material and income penalty you pay in upkeep for a huge fleet is not reduced when your fleet is annihilated.
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Easy Logistics / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat: Averted and used: Averted with missiles and special weapons, sometimes one or the other with gun ammunition (depending on the game and difficulty level), but always used with fuel, so your plane can fly for as long as you want no matter how much fuel you would be consuming from all the crazy maneuvers and afterburners that will inevitably be used. The PS1 games had a fuel meter, but it was merely a disguised timer as the performance you demand of your plane didn't affect the rate at which it drained. Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, and Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation allow the player to Return To Base (RTB) during certain missions to repair (unless playing on Expert/Ace difficulty), rearm and swap out special weapons. Then again, the weapon capacities are more than physically possible (as seen by missiles or special weapons ''magically'' reappearing on their hardpoints)... On a larger scale, there's an element of Gameplay and Story Segregation, as your missions frequently target enemy supply dumps and infrastructure, showing that plotwise logistics are indeed important. The Hyperspace Arsenal is actually addressed in a single multiplayer level of Ace Combat Zero, where two players have to face each other with under "realistic conditions". There is still no fuel limit, but the planes are armed with just one special weapon payload, about 10 missiles, and limited machine gun ammo, bringing the game closer to what an actual fighter's firepower in Real Life is.
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Easy Logistics / int_49ad83ee	comment	While players don't have to worry about it, in World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King, Varok Saurfang is trying to give a lesson in logistics to Garrosh Hellscream. They are in Warsong Hold on the west coast of Northrend, and need supplies from Orgrimmar, but the only port the Horde has is Vengeance Landing, on the other side of the continent. Getting supplies means using Goblin zeppelins that have less cargo capacity than a ship, or sending things to Vengeance Landing and then over the length of Northrend. Garrosh finds the lecture boring. He then suggests taking over the Alliance port nearby, completely forgetting the Alliance are his allies and it wouldn't be that hard to go ahead and ask them "Can we drop our supplies off from this port?". Also a case of Forgotten Phlebotinum in a universe where warlock summoning and mage portals exist. In later expansions there are occasions when troops and supplies are simply teleported directly from the faction's capital city. It is unclear why they don't just do this all time, though sometimes there is a handwave along the lines of not having the power to maintain portals indefinitely. Likewise numerous quests and npc dialogue mention the need for not just supplies but civilians to erect buildings, cook food, etc. It's particularly common in Wrath of the Lich King due to the entire expansion taking place on a continent that has no friendly settlements or military bases*At the start of Borean Tundra for Alliance players, there's a never ending line of civilian recruits, only about half of which are made soldiers. The rest are carpenters, farmers, blacksmiths, cooks, etc.. One quest has an officer complaining that some moron supplied the fort with cannons that use a non-standard cannonball, forcing players to go find the ones that have already been fired. In Vanilla, the Defias Brotherhood's operations outside Westfall are almost entirely centered around securing supplies for both their forces and to construct their massive gunship, with communications indicating they're stripping every mine, rail, and farmstead from Elwynn Forest to Booty Bay. In Westfall, they've taken over most of the farms both so they can operate freely and feed their forces.
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Easy Logistics / int_4a74fd1a	comment	Defied in Nicholas and Alexandra. Supplying soldiers across the vast Russian Empire is a monumental challenge, as Grand Duke Nicholas frustratingly explains.
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Easy Logistics / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown plays it straighter, as ammunition and fuel are managed off-screen for you, and all conventional human weapons technologies are readily available in large quantities. However, you do need to carefully manage and share out any captured or reproduced advanced/alien technology you do obtain, as their materials are limited. When building certain structures, however (such as the Elerium Reactor or the Firestorm Interceptor), you only need to provide an initial supply of alien fuel material*The research documents note that the alien power plants and elerium itself are extremely efficient, which implies that they don't need to be refueled.
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Easy Logistics / int_5044930d	comment	Satisfactory mostly plays this straight. Ore can be found in two forms: small nodes that must be mined by hand and eventually deplete; and large, flat deposits (usually with one of the aforementioned nodes on top) that never run out. Automated miners can only use the latter (after breaking the node on top). Conveyor belts and portable miners do not need power to operate. Larger machines do, but rarely is a lack of power generation a serious concern.
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Easy Logistics / int_53b30902	comment	Averted with most units in Valkyria Chronicles. Special weapons like lances and sniper rifles have limited ammo, and can only fire that amount on Offense. On defense, scouts, engineers, and shocktroopers, and tank machine guns can fire at anyone, no matter how many come by, as long as they stay in range. Also, while those weapons and theoretically fire indefinitely, they must still take time to reload their weapons once the magazines are used up. The only way for soldiers to refill ammo is to stay near a base or have an engineer resupply them, though some soldiers have special abilities that let them magically get ammo out of nowhere. The game features an early operation devoted to seizing a supply base to aid the forces on the front lines. Played straight as an arrow with Engineers and their ability to repair tanks from the brink of destruction, however. Logistics also play a key part in the plot as well. The entire reason Gallia was invaded in the first place was because of the country's ragnite mines could be used to make fuel and munitions to supply the greater war. And in the fourth game, the first offensive fails when an early winter cuts the Federation's already dangerously thin supply lines. The consequences of logistics are also used in the fourth game to explain something in the first; namely, how Gallia actually managed to stop the massive Empire's war machine just by killing the general in charge. It turns out that completely unbeknown to Gallia itself, a Federation ranger squad destroyed the tail base being used to supply the Empire's Gallian front as a target of opportunity. He might be invading a nation-sized fuel mine but Maximillian was running out of materiel to put the fuel in, casting him the war.
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Easy Logistics / int_54115aa	comment	In The Big One series, the ability to produce fuel, weapons, spare parts and everything and bring them to the frontline is shown as crucial to prosecute the war. Kazan Thunderbolts shows it perfectly when a German 1943 offensive steamrolls the recently arrived US troops but is paralyzed and forced to retreat due American bombers wiping out their supply lines, the supply depots said lines started from, and generally every transportation hub in German-occupied Russia for good measure.
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Easy Logistics / int_54569e8	comment	The Shockwave games: Averted early on in Invasion Earth when the news anchor describes how he and some of the newsroom employees have holed up in their studio during the alien invasion but they don't know how long their food and water will last. Averted again late in Invasion Earth when an entire mission centers on the Omaha sending pilots out to search for the wreckage of a space shuttle the aliens shot down. The shuttle was in the process of making a supply run, and the Omaha can't live without whatever supplies survived.
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Easy Logistics / int_55f5c3aa	comment	Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom: This game finally allows you to turn off industries on a building-by-building basis, rather than shutting down an entire industry to free up a few workers. Armies are once again drawn from the general populace, building elite housing merely allows you to increase the total number of companies. You also don't command your armies, simply choosing the troop types (infantry and catapults work better on walled cities, cavalry work better on settlements, etc.) and sending them to the target city.
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Easy Logistics / int_56fa0ea4	comment	However, Civilization V averts this by having two different kinds of logistics penalties. If you have more units than a supply number based on your population, all of your production slows down. If you have 3 units of Iron, and 5 units that use Iron, all of the Iron units take a combat penalty until you have more Iron or fewer Iron based units. Ships can regain health only when they are in friendly territory, unless they have been in battle enough to get a promotion that allows them to heal anywhere. Aircraft always suffer damage from an attack, even if it's very successful because just flying a high-performance military jet is hard on it. Since they don't heal damage on turns when they attack (unless they've been given a high-level promotion representing an exceptional repair team), your aircraft will have to sit out turns periodically while they get fixed.
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Easy Logistics / int_5881a60d	comment	In Delve, there is a build called Logistics Beacon, which specializes in the four-season auras. They reduce the need for food and increase health, mana, and stamina regeneration. They only reduce the need for supplies, not eliminate it though.
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Easy Logistics / int_58f5f234	comment	For Honor goes into the logistics of medieval warfare several times in the story campaign. Apollyon's initial attack on the Vikings was initially believed to be an extermination war targeting the Vikings' seed storehouses. However, she left just enough food intact that the Vikings would instead turn on each other to fight over the scraps to survive. Later on, the Warborn Vikings begin their march for revenge, but don't have the resources to wage a war on the Blackstone Legion, so instead launch a raid on the Dawn Empire to get the food and loot to rebuild their armies for their invasion, which draws the Samurai into the war.
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Easy Logistics / int_58ffa5db	comment	Averted in The Lost Regiment series, where problems of supplies and transportation are extremely important to the war effort. In fact, they are frequently used against the enemy (do you have any idea how many acres of grassland you need to feed a million horses?).
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Easy Logistics / int_59da62aa	comment	Thoroughly averted in Fallout: New Vegas. From the very start, you see that even the mighty New California Republic is so stymied in the Mojave due to logistical problems. Many other issues too, including sabotage, apathetic higher ups and so on, but lacking the materials to be able to do anything is at the forefront of their concerns. At the end, you can even explain to Legate Lanius that, in the event of a Legion victory at Hoover Dam, they will not be able to invade the NCR because they will experience their own logistical problems should they attempt it. This is because the NCR does understand logistics, even if many places and units get shafted due to prioritization or politics, while barely anyone in the Legion ever even gave a thought to the issue of supply.
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Easy Logistics / int_5bd0554b	comment	Similarly, in Warcraft games food is used as the population cap. Humans and orcs build farms and burrows/pig farms respectively. Undead don't need to eat, but they can use corpses for healing and reinforcements (and their supply structure doubles as their defensive tower). Night elves apparently eat moonlight, as their supply structure is a well that fills with healing water at night. Also, players with (relatively) large armies in Warcraft III will incur heavy income penalties (giving you only 70 and 40 % of mined gold), implying that the rest goes to pay your soldiers and to maintain your war machines.
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Easy Logistics / int_5cbc1ca2	comment	Mostly averted in the DEADLOCK games, where each of your conquered territories requires resources to run...whether they produce them themselves or not, and shipping resources also costs money. This makes blockades a rather effective (and annoying) tactic. Only mostly averted because certain technologies lower the cost of shipping, and one (transporters) not only makes it free, but renders one immune to blockades. The military units themselves, however, still conjure up ammo and fuel out of thin air.
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Easy Logistics / int_5d1b7e1f	comment	Totally averted in Hearts of Iron 2. Every unit consumes some amount of supplies, while armor, mechanized/motorized/very advanced infantry, aircraft, and ships all consume fuel as well. If units are cut off from supply depots, they will weaken and become much easier to defeat. This leads to a known exploit: because all of your supplies and fuel are shipped from the capital, by surrounding the capital you effectively (and bang-your-head-against-the-wall unrealistically) cut off the entire nation from supplies. This is oft discussed in the forum and expected to be changed.
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Easy Logistics / int_5d321bc8	comment	Largely averted by Factorio, though it makes some concessions for the sake of player sanity such as no building maintenance and conveyor belts that do not require electricity to run. Gun turrets require a constant supply of ammunition via conveyor belt and mineral deposits eventually run out requiring the player to find a new one and set up a delivery system to bring its minerals to a processing station. The Logistic Robots are designed to significantly ease the burden of maintaining a logistics network; they can automatically repair and/or replace damaged equipment (i.e. landmines) if they have supplies on hand, will deliver parts to requisition stations, and can place new buildings (i.e. pre-made train stations).
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Easy Logistics / int_5daab5c9	comment	Code Geass: The Prepared Rebellion makes a point of noting how difficult supplying a rebellion is, with Lelouch holding gathering funds as at least as important as actually fighting Britannia. This same aversion allows Lelouch to Spot the Thread about the Neo Shinsengumi and their backing during the Battle of Port Yokosuka. This is because he realized that "anyone with the slightest tactical acumen" wouldn't have ordered such a wasteful deployment, in both materiel and personnel, for no gain other than intel gathering if they did not know from the start they can afford it.
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Easy Logistics / int_5ea35eb7	comment	Only War, an RPG that casts the players as Guardsmen, also plays with this idea. In theory, the Imperium's glorious, perfect Munitorum supplies the Guard with standard equipment according to their regiment and role in addition to specialist gear appropriate to the mission they're given. In practice, the squad has to make a "Logistics roll" to see if anything actually turns up, and if they roll poorly enough can even be forced to go without pieces of their normal kit.
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Easy Logistics / int_625f8f3	comment	Early in The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Narsus tells Prince Arslan the tale of a King who marched to war with an army of fifty thousand men. When food started running short, the king shared the reserved the rations set aside for himself and the generals with the men. Arslan thought that sounded noble and generous, but Narsus explained that it was actually foolish: there was no way that those reserved rations could provide even one decent meal when divided across fifty thousand men, and the king should have known better than to deploy an army larger than his supply lines could feed in the first place. This begins Arslan's first lesson into the importance of logistics.
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Easy Logistics / int_62aa95a6	comment	In The Lost Fleet, the titular fleet has its own squadron of ships that are ultimately nothing more than giant flying machine shops to produce spare parts, fuel and munitions so the fleet can keep going despite being stuck behind enemy lines. However, this still doesn't solve all their logistics problems, as they have to stop to loot more raw materials the auxiliaries need to make all those things after roughly every other battle, and the simple fact that there are several hundred warships of various sizes in the fleet and only four auxiliaries means that the fleet uses supplies faster than they can replace them. The factory ships also have limited numbers of personnel and other equipment; at one point, after a particularly intense series of engagements Captain Geary has to order the fleet to prioritise energy weapons and conserve missiles and kinetic projectiles because the auxillaries have been too busy refining more reactor fuel to bring the ammunition stocks back up. This issue escalates steadily all the way to the climax: At the end of the fifth book, some ships end up dropping out of formation because they're totally out of fuel and can no longer run the engines. Fortunately, this happens in an Alliance border system, so once the battle is over they can ask the system fleet for a tow to the nearest shipyard.
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Easy Logistics / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Averted. The series go into considerable detail with the day-to-day functioning of a military encampment and the administrative problems it poses. It helps that The Hero Tavi (before experiencing a case of You Are in Command Now,) was actually a subtribune tasked with precisely the sort of logistical issues that often get overlooked in other works. Transport is also a major issue, with Tavi coming to recognise that even marching is more difficult than one would think, and an enemy has a decisive advantage because of their ability to force-march faster for longer without relying on the established transport routes. Furycasting allows the Legions and their supply wagons to travel incredibly fast on the causeways, which is nice at the strategic level but useless at the tactical level against opponents who don't operate near the causeways. One early problem that Tavi discovers is that the Legionaries are reporting that their flour ration used to make bread seems to be short. A search and investigation reveals that someone has modified the measuring cups to reduce the amount of flour being doled out to each soldier, and someone is selling the excess flour in the camp's black market. He points this out to the commander of logistics (while noting that the amount of missing flour so far seems to be just enough to pay for a couple of suspiciously-nice items the officer is wearing) and that he's replaced the cups with proper measures. The commander promptly thanks Tavi and reassigns him to measure the latrines to ensure they, too, are up to regulation. Even the Vord, who are exactly the sort of force that might well be handwaved to be immune to this trope get crippled by strikes to their own food storehouses, and the few Aleran victories come largely because the Alerans get them to overextend their supply lines and outmanoeuvre them strategically on the large-scale map rather than tactically on the battlefield.
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Easy Logistics / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker: This is a huge point in international politics. The magically created undead known as Lifeless are no stronger or more skilled or more capable of absorbing damage than regular living humans, but they don't have to eat, which made the discovery of an efficient way of summoning them a Game-Breaker that started a massive multinational war. Also a roundabout key to the villain's plan. He sends the Lifeless to attack a neighboring kingdom and then kills everyone who knows how to change their orders, banking on the fact that even unsupported, the Lifeless will deal enough damage to start a second world war.
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Easy Logistics / int_64ddf294	comment	Logistics in EVE Online is a major part of managing a successful corporation or alliance, especially in outlaw space. Raw materials need to be extracted and refined, starbases consume fuel and supplies, taxes and rents need to be paid, ammo is expended, capital ships need fuel for their jump drives and spare ships and other equipment need to be manually hauled to replace losses. While this keeps industrialists busy, it also provides ample targets for enemies looking for something expensive to shoot, and disruption of supply lines is a viable tactic to undermine combat readiness. To be specific it's the players that mine, haul and produce everything, to the point where if you buy something from a space station you have to go fetch it yourself. It's a bit odd considering the number of Mega Corps in the fluff. However, one of the most successful and renowned player corporations in EVE is... a freight line.
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Easy Logistics / int_6535218b	comment	A major part of the Soviet strategy in Red Storm Rising is using submarine attacks and aerial bombing to gut any supply convoys between North America and Europe, depriving the NATO troops in Germany of munitions. On the NATO side, a good part of the war is figuring out ways to stop said attacks so that the troops fighting the land war don't run out of ammunition. The war ultimately ends when NATO learns that Russia started the war so that they could secure extra sources of petroleum to replace a ruined well and refinery, and moves fuel convoys and depots to the top of the priority list for air raids in response.
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Easy Logistics / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates fanfic A Brighter Dark, Jakob consciously invokes this to the benefit of Corrin. Due to Jakob's talent with organizing and management, he assures his liege that she won't have to worry about any of the details involving troop movements, equipment, and maintenance when making her decisions and that whatever path they took, he would ensure everything ended up where it needed to be without her having to think about it.
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Easy Logistics / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars: Averted. Weapons either have their own ammunition or drain energy from the robot, and air or space movement also costs one energy per movement panel. It's possible, though somewhat difficult, to have a unit unable to move because of lack of energy, although they can still move enough to fire weapons or even whack another robot with a sword from a few tiles away. This also doesn't explain why, for example, Mazinkaiser is holding 99 missiles in its torso. Still runs into the same resupply issue as Advance Wars. Later games actually let you put a resupply device on any unit. Even something as small as a fighter plane is apparently capable of carrying a full set of revolver stake and heavy claymore ammo for Alteisen, and hold enough fuel to refill the energy reserves of any and all the player's units, including battleships. And for that matter, while units spend energy flying through the air or outer space, they can still run on the ground, swim/wade/propel itself through the water, operate the weapons that don't use energy themselves (some of which logically should and some other which should also require ammo like a Grungust's Boost Knuckle), and otherwise stay on infinitely without using any energy despite being giant robots. And most units recover a set amount of energy each turn (that can get bigger with certain equipment). The players are also able to buy parts for cash to repair downed units no matter what the tactical situation is. Any unit shot down is repaired at the end of the fight, but costs money you'd probably rather use for upgrades. Apparently in the future, Radio Shack carries mech parts, and has locations in enemy territory, outer space, the future, and at the bottom of the ocean. Alpha Gaiden has a scene where the Iron Gear is said to be repaired from damage it got in a cutscene using parts from the enemy ships they destroyed, and they mention they often use enemy parts for repairing their own units. Granted, this would make more sense if units didn't tend to explode the second they run out of hit points. And none of this addresses the fact that the WARSHIPS can always resupply everyone and any other unit between chapters and if you fly ANY unit into a carrier (Even the ones that shouldn't be able to fit in the carrier, like the Daitarn 3, which is most likely AS BIG AS THE CARRIER), even if the teams have been separated from any source of material for weeks on end.
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Easy Logistics / int_690d43d4	comment	Zigzagged in Factory of the Gods. Buildings have no maintenance, conveyer belts operate without any input, and magic items make creating robotic hands simple. However, the need for materials being transported to the main factory so they can be turned into useful goods is an ongoing challenge throughout the series.
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Easy Logistics / int_6a2b73ca	comment	Elite Dangerous completely averts this. While there are explanations for why 20 tons of hydrogen is all you need to travel several light years at a time, and the usage of that hydrogen fuel is nigh unnoticeable outside of interstellar jumps, that fuel must either be refilled at space ports, or "scooped" from eligible stars.note Though, in practice, the scoop function means that anyone who cares to outfit their ship with a decent fuel scoop and pays the slightest attention to the designation of stars in systems they're traveling through has functionally infinite fuel. There is no cost to fuel scooping unless overheating (by flying rather close to a massive ball of fusing hydrogen) damages the ship. Furthermore, all ship repairs and ammunition must either be paid for at space ports, or produced via an on-board crafting module. And the resources used by the crafting module to produce stuff must be obtained by the player.
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Easy Logistics / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: The magical artifacts known as Soulcasters can eliminate much of an army's need for supplies, as they literally create food, wood and other supplies. They need stormlight charged gemstones to work, and they actually transform the material an object is made out of, meaning waste can be made into food, wood can be created in an area without trees and structures can be built out of easily worked material then transformed into stone for strength. This makes them arguably even more strategically important than Shardblades or Shardplate used in battle, and the king's tax on the use of his Soulcasters is Elokhar's main income source. That being said, trade still moves between the homeland and the armies' bases, but they typically supply things that are harder to acquire or can't be created by Soulcasters. For example, while a Soulcaster can create food, that food is inherently bland, and needs to be literally spiced up by other food items brought in from outside.
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Easy Logistics / int_6a9603f6	comment	In A Fighting Chance, Earth Alliance quickly acquires the technology to target the Minbari ships, leading to the above scenario much faster. Later turned back against Earth Alliance when Branmer manage to keep most of Earth's main force from chasing his fleet attacking Earth itself when he destroys their fuel stockpiles after tricking them into using most of their onboard fuel in a running battle. This is also the reason Branmer is attacking Earth: due their relative youth as a spacefaring nation, more than half of Earth Alliance's industrial production is still based on Earth itself with most of the rest placed on Mars and Proxima, and the loss of those industries would cripple the Alliance.
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Easy Logistics / int_6af83614	comment	Justified in A Thing of Vikings. Berk has a large army of dragons and at least one of their enemies is shocked by how they're able to feed them. They manage because of several different reasons. Firstly, with the death of the Green Death, the ecosystem suddenly had a huge surplus in its carrying capacity. Secondly, Berk makes use of the dragons themselves to catch all the fish they'll need to feed the dragons and build things to be more efficient about feeding everyone. Thirdly, it also turns out dragon dung is an extremely potent fertiliser, so they can grow more crops so the humans will need less fish and therefore can allocate more to the dragons. All their enemies however avert this as they either have no dragons or too few dragons to smooth out their own logistical issues.
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Easy Logistics / int_6c1234ed	comment	And of course, completely averted in Dwarf Fortress: every single piece of equipment (weapons, ammo, armor, and even clothes), as well as food, water, ammo for the siege engines, maintenance of the traps, etc... has to be created/performed/hauled by a dwarf, as part of his or her daily routine. So creating a working army from scratch is an arduous process that can take years of ingame time, because you have to assign immigrant dwarves to the military, then mine the metal needed for a weapon, smelt it (which necessitates additional coal or charcoal), manufacture the weapon, and repeat the process for every single weapon, element of armor or ammo that each dwarf needs to carry. Then you have to cook food and create waterskins for them, and create a place to store ammo and spare weapons. And finally, you have to train the dwarves, giving them spaces to train, plotting training rotation schedules, and crafting or buying weapons to train with.
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Easy Logistics / int_6dd8677c	comment	Up until Tiberian Sun, the only way to repair a vehicle was to put it on a repair facility, which avoided the hammerspace issue by being larger than the units it was repairing (it also drained money, and, naturally, immobilized the unit being repaired). Repairing buildings with an engineer, however, played that part straight.
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Easy Logistics / int_6fce1296	comment	Nectaris makes logistics very easy indeed. No unit ever runs out of fuel or ammunition. Factories can repair any damaged unit in one turn to better-than-new condition.
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Easy Logistics / int_70814599	comment	On Stargate SG-1 the humans spend a lot of time making fun of how hopeless the Jaffa are as soldiers, and how ineffective their equipment is compared to a good old P-90. What is never explored is the massive logistical advantage that the System Lords seem to have. Staff Weapons appear to have a power source that lasts for years compared to the few hundred rounds a human could reasonably carry for his weapon. On the medicinal front, human medicine seems to be more effective against massive trauma, but the Jaffa's Symbiotes render them immune to infection, minor wounds, and disease. Human special ops teams with quick gate access are way ahead of their Jaffa opponents in a quick fight, but the System Lords seem to have an immense logistical advantage, having eliminated the need to supply their troops with ammunition or medical supplies. This is adequately demonstrated whenever a system lord, or just about any foe, learns Earth's location and move to attack, SG-1 had to pull more than a few Deus Ex Machinas to avoid Earth getting gibbed, and it was shown in several multiverse episodes they were the only Earth not about or in the process of being destroyed.
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Easy Logistics / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Dominion's Jem'Hadar are genetically engineered to grow to full combat-capable size, intelligence and strength in three days, and to not need sleep, water or food. Their only requirement is the addictive Ketracel-White drug to ensure their loyalty, but without it they quickly become feral and violent. Many of the Dominion's plans and those of their allies and enemies were centered around increasing or reducing production of Ketracel-White, as the more the Dominion had, the more Jem'Hadar it would be able to support in the field. Earlier, it's shown that the Klingon invasion reduced the Cardassian Union to a shadow of itself not just by inflicting devastating military losses, but also by taking over or destroying a large chunk of their infrastructure, thus preventing them from rebuilding. Much emphasis is also put upon the wormhole near Deep Space Nine, as it's the fastest route to Dominion space and the Federation regaining control of the station cuts off Dominion supply lines of troops and ships. There's even more emphasis on the Dominion's sheer ability to manufacture ships. When the Romulans are being courted to join the war on the Federation and Klingon side, their representative points out the logistical situation as one of the reasons the Dominion is winning, as their early strikes caused dire damage to the Federation and Klingon infrastructure that still haven't been fully repaired while the Dominion's in Cardassian space was at full efficiency. Logistics are also implied to be one of the reasons the Romulan entry in the war quickly kicks them back out of Federation and Klingon space: the Romulan infrastructure is completely intact, allowing them to support their powerful fleet and supply their new allies until they recover.
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Easy Logistics / int_741a012e	comment	Each unit in Gihren's Greed has a health bar and an 'energy' bar (which represents fuel and ammunition). A battlemap also has supply points and supply lines clearly shown. As long as a unit is on a supply line, on each turn they recover a small amount of energy (though not as much as if they were at a supply point, which also restores health to boot). However, supply points and lines only do this if there's an actual source of supplies (e.g. from the attacker's territory to the defender's). Cutting off supply lines is a very Boring, but Practical method of winning a battle, since even the most advanced Gundam is just a gigantic pile of useless metal when it's out of fuel and can't move.
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Easy Logistics / int_747d9a6f	comment	Simultaneously averted and played straight in [PROTOTYPE], which puts the player in a Manhattan being fought over by the US military and an outbreak of a zombie virus. Although any military hardware that's stolen has limited ammunition, whether it's a tank or a helicopter or an assault rifle, the military never runs out of these things. Underscoring the silliness of this is that the game keeps tabs on the dollar value of any damage inflicted during an engagement with the military. It's downright simple to rack up trillions of dollars in damage, but somehow the money and materiel keeps flowing in. Just for comparison's sake, as of 2011 the War on Terror was estimated to cost about 5 trillion.
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Easy Logistics / int_74c44f47	comment	Averted in Knights and Merchants and its sequel The Peasant Rebellion. Your army (and workers too) need to be supplied to prevent them from starving, making waging war a tricky business especially when the enemy's base is far away. It's even more troublesome when you notice that there aren't any special supply units in the game, and that you need (slow moving and vulnerable) civilians to carry the food to the front lines. During a battle, logistics might actually be one of the most difficult aspects of this game. However, your archers never run out of arrows.
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Easy Logistics / int_74c5b2f3	comment	All units in Advance Wars expend ammunition by attacking and fuel by moving (and also each turn for air and sea unit), but there are major simplications: Resupplying can be done by having a unit start a turn on the appropriate facility tile, or with a single APC that is capable of resupplying any unit, including naval vessels and aircraft. Ever ally adjacent to the APC during resupply is topped off instantly. This happens automatically at the start of your turn and can be done a second time manually each turn (if the APC isn't unloading infantry instead). APCs never run out of supplies to give to other units, but have their own fuel supply they cannot replenish. Two APCs together can restore each other indefinitely. The aforementioned facilities also do repair, though this cost money (proportional to the unit's value and health restores) and is done more slowly (one fifth of max health per turn; three-tenths for Rachel). It's understandable that Infantry can obtain more men, but one really has to wonder where these remote cities in the middle of nowhere are getting their heavy tank parts. All machine guns have infinite ammo, not counting the Anti-Air unit's Vulcan cannon. The Join mechanic lets you combine a pair of damaged units into a new one with the same total HP, ammunition, and fuel. This works whether the visuals for the unit taking damage show soldiers/vehicles being destroyed (which means they should have less fuel/ammo from losses) or a single vehicle breaking down (which means combining them in the field makes little sense). Most bizarrely, HP in excess of the maximum 10 will instantly turn into funds proportional to the unit's cost, in a game where you otherwise can't refund units. Two COs, Jess (Black Hole Rising and Dual Strike) and Greyfield (Days of Ruin), instantly resupply all units when they use their CO Powers.
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Easy Logistics / int_750b817	comment	Subverted for everyone but the main party, the Crimson Vow, in Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?. Storage Magic (a Bag of Holding spell) is so valuable that many adventuring parties, merchant groups, and militaries are willing to pay good money to keep mages who know just that spell; being able to reliably produce significant amounts of potable water with magic is also highly prized; and any kill contracts requires the adventurers to extract relatively easy-to-transport proof from the corpses, such as ears or tails, and compensation is affected by how difficult it would be to get there and back, and also the deterioration and mishaps that may occur. Part of the reason why the Crimson Vow is so successful is that Mile's storage magic is so powerful that her storage magic has effectively infinite capacity. The one time the party tries to go questing while she's taking a day off, the others find their ability to work significantly hindered by the absence of all the various conveniences that Miles can bring with her without being encumbered, and the fact that she can just as easily take several tons of monster meat back home with her the same way.
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Easy Logistics / int_76686539	comment	In the first game, a major issue facing the Feros colony is helping them get back to being self-sufficient after the geth attacks by repairing local water and power supplies and killing a dangerous varren so that the colony can hunt lesser varren for meat. Shepard can outright offer to use their ship to fly in supplies, but that option is shut down simply because their ship lacks the cargo capacity to fly in enough supplies to keep the colony alive.
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Easy Logistics / int_7668653a	comment	Refueling is one of the Normandy's issues in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. In the second game, it is relatively easy to refuel: you just have to spend a small amount of money at refueling stations. In the third game, it is much more problematic, because you're in the middle of a massive galactic war with the Reapers, who make it a policy to destroy refueling stations wherever they can. Thus, you're forced to scavenge fuel from wrecked stations and ships in order to explore.
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Easy Logistics / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3: When trying to secure krogan support for the turians, EDI will talk at length about the logistics should you be successful. First, due to demilitarization, the krogan have no war ships, so someone will need to supply the ships. Second, since the turians have Mirror Chemistry with the krogan, the krogan will not be able to eat any food on turian worlds; and will need to bring their own. Finally, a species as naturally aggressive as the krogan don't do well in enclosed spaces (like space ships) with fellow krogan, and will need tranquilizers to keep them from fighting each other during the trip.
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Easy Logistics / int_78857b99	comment	Averted in The Swarm of War. There are a lot of issues with feeding an army a million strong, and the Ork invasion runs into significant problems once they find out their spores donâ€™t grow in Creep. Ork spores are responsible for creating their worker Grotz and the typical food source of Squigs and mushrooms, blunting their usual rampage while they deal with this.
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Easy Logistics / int_78fd658b	comment	In the Larry Bond novel Red Phoenix, the turning point of the Second Korean War wasn't a battle. It was when the NATO supply officers were successfully pulled far enough away from the front that they could get back to work and reorganize their side's logistics (which had been deliberately screwed up earlier so that a politically mandated withdrawal of NATO troops would be delayed long enough so that they'd still be in South Korea when the invasion the military high command saw coming started), allowing the NATO troops to have the supplies they needed to fight the decisive battle.
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Easy Logistics / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: This is generally averted across the games, as frequently the biggest issue facing organizations is maintaining their supplies. In the first game, a major issue facing the Feros colony is helping them get back to being self-sufficient after the geth attacks by repairing local water and power supplies and killing a dangerous varren so that the colony can hunt lesser varren for meat. Shepard can outright offer to use their ship to fly in supplies, but that option is shut down simply because their ship lacks the cargo capacity to fly in enough supplies to keep the colony alive. Targeting logistics and support is the core of salarian, asari, and human military doctrines. Salarian doctrine focuses on completely controlling the enemy's logistics and support network via mass infiltration of their security prior to the start of any conflict, effectively ending the war before it ever begins. Asari doctrine focuses on commando operations deep behind enemy lines, destroying logistics and cutting off the enemy's ability to support themselves. Human doctrine uses armored cavalry and mobility to completely bypass the enemy's positions and attack their command and logistics sections and leave the rest of the enemy army to "wither on the vine." In Mass Effect 2, Shepard has to personally source the rare materials needed for expensive research projects or cutting-edge ship upgrades by mining various planets using orbital probes. Shepard also has to acquire money and schematics and equipment him/herself in the field. Cerberus handles the operating costs of the Normandy so Shepard can focus on fighting the Collectors, and they cut their support after the game ends, which is one of the reasons why Shepard has to turn themselves in to the Alliance afterward. The Reapers do not have any known fuel needs, and are never mentioned to be resupplying during their invasion of the galaxy. The game Lampshades that this makes it almost impossible to fight them: no supply lines to disrupt, no resources to steal, no strategic bases to attack. They are a highly mobile, entirely self-sufficient army. No one in the game has any idea how in the hell the Reapers manage this; it's assumed to be some form of higher technology no one understands. The only known supply lines that they have are simply ships ferrying husks from planet to planet as needed; and these may travel inside of the Reapers for most of that. Refueling is one of the Normandy's issues in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. In the second game, it is relatively easy to refuel: you just have to spend a small amount of money at refueling stations. In the third game, it is much more problematic, because you're in the middle of a massive galactic war with the Reapers, who make it a policy to destroy refueling stations wherever they can. Thus, you're forced to scavenge fuel from wrecked stations and ships in order to explore. Mass Effect 3: When trying to secure krogan support for the turians, EDI will talk at length about the logistics should you be successful. First, due to demilitarization, the krogan have no war ships, so someone will need to supply the ships. Second, since the turians have Mirror Chemistry with the krogan, the krogan will not be able to eat any food on turian worlds; and will need to bring their own. Finally, a species as naturally aggressive as the krogan don't do well in enclosed spaces (like space ships) with fellow krogan, and will need tranquilizers to keep them from fighting each other during the trip.
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Easy Logistics / int_79a57c7e	comment	Averted in Black & White 2. In this game, you can make armies (unlike the last game, where warfare was entirely god- and Creature-based), but there's a couple of catches: first, you make armies from your own people, so if they get killed, you'll be down to Disciples until you breed some more; and second, army units eat twice as much food as the regular people whether they're fighting or not, and if you disband them, there's no guarantee that you'll get the same people again if you reform them- so if one unit is particularly skilled in battle, you might want to disband them to save food, but then you might lose their skill, so you might have to leave them standing around, doing nothing but eating all your food.
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Easy Logistics / int_7bfecbd3	comment	Many of the problems the soldiers face in A Bridge Too Far are logistics related. Since the film was based on a real campaign, the actual soldiers who served in Operation Market Garden likely faced many of them in real life: The Allies lacked the airlift capacity to deliver all the paratroopers and their gear in one drop. Key equipment that was supposed to be part of the first drop was lost during the drop, leaving the troops unable to fight effectively. The later drops were repeatedly postponed due to weather issues. Even when supply drops did make it through, communication problems meant that the supply drops were delivered to the wrong locations, resulting in desperately needed food, munitions and medical supplies being delivered to the enemy by accident. And the relief force on the ground was sent to advance along a single, fairly narrow road. This meant that any bottlenecks caused by traffic difficulties could (and on several occasions did) block the advance of the entire column.
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Easy Logistics / int_7dad8347	comment	The FreeSpace series averts this somewhat by the need to call a support ship to reload secondary weapons. The support ship can bring subsystems (such as communications and sensors) back to life but cannot repair your ship's hull. Depending on the weapons you have on board, they can take a bit of time to reload — bigger missiles and bombs, for example, take forever to load on your ship, leaving you highly vulnerable to enemy fire. Only one support ship can be present in the area at a given time, which means that if your wingmen run out of ammo the support ship will momentarily be unavailable for you to reload and repair. However, the ship itself can reload any number of missiles of any type on ship any number of times, despite the training instructor in both games telling you that the support ship can only carry a limited amount of ordinance. Then again, your support ship will probably blow up (with a big bang, with all those bombs on board!) after one or two reloads (or even in transit before it reloads anybody's ship), in which you'd need to call another one in anyway. And in a more general subversion, there are several missions where you are defending supply ships or cutting enemy supply lines, providing at least a nod in the direction of logistics.
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Easy Logistics / int_7dcea90b	comment	Averted in Wargame: European Escalation. All vehicles have limited ammunition and fuel, and can only be repaired and resupplied when in range of a logistics vehicle or Forward Operating Base. However, even the logistics vehicles and FOBs have (very) limited supplies, making it impossible to keep your units well-stocked for too long. FOBs are a bit less limited in their supplies, but they can't be deployed after the pregame. Reinforcements also come from outside the map through predetermined paths that are only available when you control the entry territory, allowing ambushes and blockades. Looked at another way though, you could say that this game is a good example of this trope, as a single ubiquitous "supply" resource can refuel and rearm all units from not only different countries of an alliance, but from the opposing faction as well. For example, Warsaw Pact troops can capture NATO supplies and use them to restock their ammunition stores.
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Easy Logistics / int_7de8951a	comment	Averted in Traveller. A high degree of attention is paid to this. For instance, during the Interstellar Wars, an entire Vilani fleet was stranded in port because the Terrans had paralysed the traffic round. Voyages have to be planned based on whether a given star system can supply jump fuel (if a ship is equipped properly, skimming it from a gas giant will do), thus corralling traffic into predictable patterns.
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Easy Logistics / int_7e05b89f	comment	Aerobiz: You never have to worry about ensuring adequate ground support equipment is available for your airliners at their destinations, nor do you have to worry about flight scheduling, maintenance issues, etc...
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Easy Logistics / int_7e0ccc9a	comment	In Davion & Davion (Deceased), this is heavily averted. John Davion takes great pains to ensure his own supply lines are well-protected and prepares emergency fallback production for his industries in off-the-map sites so the other Great Houses know nothing of his true production and supply capabilities. Operation Oxbow is a deep-striking military operation John plans so that he can cripple the ability of his longtime foes to keep their fleets maintained. The SLDF offensive suffers after John secedes from the now-rotten Star League as without his taxes and materiel support, the SLDF loses more than a third of its funding and supply capability. On top of that, with one of their biggest supply depots cut off from SLDF lines in now-hostile territory, they find themselves even more short on everything and are ultimately forced to effectively become pseudo-mercenaries under the employ of the other Great Houses.
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Easy Logistics / int_7fba9cb1	comment	The Powder Mage Trilogy: Averted. The logistics of moving and supplying large armies of men play a key role in the war that is fought in the books. The major battles are fought over mountain passes that the invading army needs to supply its forces. When a group of corrupt officers steal gunpowder shipments and sell them on the civilian market, it causes serious issues for the army and the crime is treated as a form of treason. When an army is cut off behind enemy lines, supplies quickly become an issue. The army is able to forage food and horse feed from the countryside but its only a matter of time before that runs out and the army will have to surrender. It becomes a race as the army tries to fight its way back to its own territory before it runs out of supplied. In the final battle, gunpowder is so short that it is given out to only the best marksmen. The trope is played with in one instance when a general realizes that his army is spending less on food than it should but his soldiers seem better fed than before. When he investigates, he discovers that the army's new head chef is actually a god who makes high quality meals appear out of thin air.
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Easy Logistics / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings subverts this as well. After Sauron's defeat at the Battle of the Last Alliance, it takes him centuries to build his strength back up before he attempts to conquer Middle-earth again, and he and Saruman make allies, hires mercenaries, and operates through said allies or servants that act on their whim to strike out at Middle-earth, such as the Witch-king of Angmar forming an entire country expressly for the purpose of conquering the North or Grima Wormtongue filling the role of an Evil Chancellor in Rohan to weaken it. In the movies it's the same; Sauron and Saruman require preparation and time in order to build up forces to enact their plans, and the first movie even has a montage of Saruman tearing down the trees at Isengard to feed the huge forges underneath the place as they churn out weapons and armor for his Uruk-hai, and Saruman's order to have his first bunch of Uruks armed and ready to march in two weeks is regarded as impossible by an orc leader before he tells him to burn Fangorn Forest to the ground. This also applies to the good guys, where Theoden is shown making great effort to muster his army and grumbles at one point that a force of six thousand spear cavalry was "less than half of what I'd hoped for"—suggesting that Rohan's full army is (or was) much larger than that, but recent events have made gathering it on a short timeframe rather difficult. That said, the films do suffer from this with regards to Minas Tirith, where the region around it is basically an empty plain with no signs of farmland, raising the question of how the city feeds itself (in the books, it's said that the Pelennor Fields are full of small towns and farms, and more attention is given to Gondor's other regions—both were omitted from the films for budget reasons).
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Easy Logistics / int_803465e9	comment	City-Building Series: Averted in the Caesar games with buildings that require raw materials or labour. Raw materials are distributed by handcarts that must be pushed through your streets and each building only generates one cart. This means that importing more than one type of raw material (olives, timber, iron ore, etc.) can lead to production buildings standing idle most of the time. Also, the random paths taken by service providers can easily deprive a house of things it needs to maintain its status for no apparent reason. Pharaoh: Goods still have to be carted from one end of the city to the other (as the cart pushers will happily remind you), but storage yards can be told to refuse certain types of goods so as to make sure everything goes where it's supposed to. It also allows a small amount of control over service providers via roadblocks: the cartpushers ignore them, but walkers will turn around and stay out of places where they're useless. Requests for goods from other cities are instantly taken away without needing to arrange their transportation. similarly, gifts from other cities are added instantly to the city's yards. Unfortunately, food requests can only be taken out of storage yards. The biggest Acceptable Break from Reality, however, is the fact that a recruiter only has to walk past a house for his job to have workers taken out of the entire workforce, so you can have a massive mining complex with all necessary support buildings employing hundreds apparently crewed by five people living in a hut, then turn off the mines to free up the workers if, say, your educational system or military needs workers.Unfortunately, the fact that recruiters don't always pop out from the most convenient corner of the building means a lot of extra planning involving roadblocks (and sometimes those don't work, the building remaining unstaffed because the recruiter spawns in the middle of the roadblocks and is immediately despawned) and wasted road space. The need for simplification causes its own problems: storage facilities send out one cart at a time, making it not unusual to see as many storage yards as there are types of goods. Similarly, maritime trade is hamperd by the fact that trade ships dump all their goods simultaneously at the first dock they see instead of going to another one, tying up traffic while they wait for carts to return. Stored food never goes bad. It's possible to put the mission's very first harvest in a yard as insurance and still see it there decades or centuries later at the mission's end. Zeus: Master of Olympus: Recruitment logistics are made even easier by the fact that workers are taken instantly from the workforce as a whole, no more Industrial Ghetto crewed by the half-dozen inhabitants of a tent propped up with sticks. Trade with other cities is now done by giving each city its own trading post/dock, giving you more control over what goods need to be carted a long way away. Armies are recruited from the population, with standard housing providing ranged troops (since they also provide workers, they're best used sparingly to prevent economic meltdown) and elite housing providing infantry and cavalry (and in fact need armor/horses to progress). Because of this, only the elites can be sent abroad to aid in defending an allied city or conquering enemies. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom: This game finally allows you to turn off industries on a building-by-building basis, rather than shutting down an entire industry to free up a few workers. Armies are once again drawn from the general populace, building elite housing merely allows you to increase the total number of companies. You also don't command your armies, simply choosing the troop types (infantry and catapults work better on walled cities, cavalry work better on settlements, etc.) and sending them to the target city.
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Easy Logistics / int_80a8a733	comment	Averted hard in Hell Let Loose. Getting supplied near the frontlines is a must for both attacking and defending teams, especially when one needs to build fortifications, set up garrisons, or place anti-tank guns. Supplies can arrive to certain sectors in one of three ways: on foot by the Support class, dropped from the air by the Commander, or by driving a supply truck to the point on the map that needs reinforcing. It is also very much possible for enemy soldiers to destroy these supplies, either by manually destroying it through interacting or simply by blowing them up, which can and will hamper offensive and defensive operations.
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Easy Logistics / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations II: There are technologies called "Logistics", and researching them essentially increases your civilization's ability to handle this sort of offscreen logistical problem. Having a high Logistics lets you field bigger fleets (which allows a number of ships to move and fight in a group) and allows you to have more Starbases without having to pay extra. Note that Logistics doesn't limit how many ships you can have, only how many you can have (and of what class) in each fleet. The actual number of ships is governed by your income, since each ship costs a certain amount to not only build but also to maintain, and occasionally you will get messages telling you that your military is too much of a drain on your treasury and you need to scrap some of your weaker weapon barges and/or conquer some new planets to turn into money generators. Ships have a set "range" from friendly territory determined by their supply upgrades. A ship outside its supply range cannot move except to head directly towards friendly space (which means that hilarious results can be gained with wormhole anomalies on large maps, as your flagship disappears to the far side of the map and meets everyone while charging back)). However, this resupply appears to work by magic. There is nothing wrong with having a ship soar around in a giant circle at extreme range indefinitely, so long as it doesn't stray outside it.
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Easy Logistics / int_85b998b	comment	Avoided in Conquest: Frontier Wars, a space RTS: ships that went into enemy territory or just away from supply bases would quickly use up their supplies in battle ending up helpless and unable to fire. Supply ships could accompany fleets to help somewhat, but even these could be drained by prolonged battle and the only way to be truly safe from supply problems was to be camping under the radius of a supply base built in controlled territory. Key word controlled as one was also required to build chains of jump gates or HQs in order to be allowed to build in a system. Surprisingly not as annoying as it sounds, and added interesting depth to an otherwise somewhat flat combat system.
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Easy Logistics / int_864a7357	comment	Total War: Warhammer introduces more exotic forms of attrition, all of which represent being unable to live off the land for various reasons. Chaos and the Undead can only maintain their armies in areas with sufficient corruption, that same corruption harms armies of other factions. The Wood Elves are uniquely immune to attrition within their sacred forest of Athel Loren as it resists outsiders. Mountains and badlands not only cause attrition to armies other than Dwarves and Orcs but aren't even inhabitable by other groups. The extreme northern cold also afflicts the armies of all but the Norscans and Chaos forces.
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Easy Logistics / int_8b55fd36	comment	Those that are permanently airborne, like the Kirov Airship in the Red Alert series and most of the games' helicopters, are treated as having unlimited fuel and munitions; at best, there is a short cooldown timer between attack runs. How they are repaired is also questionable.
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Easy Logistics / int_8c7237b3	comment	Referenced and averted in Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion: even with over fifteen years of preparations and Tarkin as one of their leaders, the Rebels haven't started open warfare against the Empire in no small part because they don't have the resources to support the war effort. Garm Bel Iblis is noted to be "willing to buy, steal and procure anything that could fly and fight if it could serve the Rebellion, especially when it was cruisers" in spite of preferring by far Corellian Engineering Corporation products (CEC made very few cruisers and most of them aren't on the markets), and the discovery and capture of a secret shipyard capable of building everything from fighters to battlecruisers and a ready supply of gunships and battlecruisers is treated as a major achievement. Double Subverted with Stella Maris, the above shipyard: as the original owners had built it in secret and were operating illegally Bel Iblis immediately wonders how they had managed to pull it off, but Tarkin quickly explains they started out with a single mobile dock and it took them years and a large revenue, in part procured by selling counterfeits Corellian gunships, to build the rest.
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Easy Logistics / int_8cd6b86f	comment	The aversion is critical to the finale of Battle of the Bulge: The German supply lines were so weak that their counteroffensive was dependent on their ability to salvage fuel from defeated Allied units. Once the Allies realized this, they lured the Germans into an open country battle that the German tanks were good at fighting, but didn't have the gas to fight for very long. Between the fuel expended fighting the tank battle and the failure to capture the supply depot nearest the battlefield, the Germans ran out of gas, costing them the use of their armor and ending the offensive.
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Easy Logistics / int_8f1d6140	comment	Averted in Knights of Honor deployed troops consume food supplies, which need to be restocked, either by pillaging farms, or by entering a castle and restocking there. This can be problematic when laying siege to a castle, because often the castle's supply of food is larger than that of the enemy army.
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Easy Logistics / int_9045b1b7	comment	In World War Z, the US general being interviewed discusses this trope as regards to why the military had such a difficult time beating back the zombies: the logistics aren't at all easy for the humans, but they sure as heck are for the dead. Being walking corpses, zombies have none of the normal needs of an army—they don't need ammo, fuel, gear, or water, or in fact any support at all, and can go years without eating. Whereas human troops definitely do need all that stuff and must somehow get it while society is collapsing, and must guard against the possibility of their own casualties feeding or reinforcing the enemy. The US army eventually develops a very strict "resource to kill ratio" policy: only weapons that kill the absolute most zombies for the absolute least resource expenditure are used, anything else is repurposed or mothballed.
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Easy Logistics / int_90e2f673	comment	Averted in the Classic BattleTech board game. Ballistic weapons and missile launchers require literally tons of ammunition, and supplies play a major part in any game that extends beyond individual battles. A factor which was actually invoked by all sides during the Clan invasion. The Clans resorted to Energy Weapon use because their logistics train (designed only for the Clans Duel to the Death style combat) couldn't cope with the Inner Sphere's grueling wars of attrition, and the Inner Sphere used Energy Weapons for operation behind enemy lines, specifically to hunt down Clan supplies. Also averted by Comstar, whose logistics were already good enough to supply HPV Defender units all across the Inner Sphere, and managed the logistical nightmare of supplying dozens of army groups in the Battle for Tukayyid. When the opposing generals discuss the battle after the fact, it is pointed out that the Precentor Martial of Comstar won the battle almost entirely because he understood logistics in a way the Clans did not. The very few Clan forces that brought enough supplies tended to win their individual contests.
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Easy Logistics / int_90f18253	comment	Battletech: The novella "The Price of Duty" averts this hard. The second half of the novella concerns the first mission of the resurrected Gray Death Legion, in combat against a rogue LCAF unit that is going to try and liberate worlds from the Jade Falcons on their own initiative. The Legion is trying to keep casualties to a minimum, and so focuses on the "loggies", or logistics train. The opposing commander throws in the towel when she realizes that the Legion has completely destroyed her logistics train. When her subordinates point out that the combat units are still largely intact, she responds by asking just how effective they are going to be in the long run without ammo resupply or repair capacity. Also comes up in Battle of Tukayyid, where ComStar fought the Clans and won. Clan battle tactics being focused on fast, decisive strikes, ComStar forces denied them engagements and forced the Clans to use up their ammo on retreating or ambushing forces. When the Clans realized they needed to resupply, their overwhelming focus on their frontline forces and use of second-line (at best) combatants to protect their logistics trains meant that ComStar was able to essentially destroy their supplies outright, forcing the Clans to divert from their goals to try to capture ComStar supplies. Which were heavily defended. In most cases the Clans were reduced to lasers and PPCsnote While laser and PPC fire is not to be discounted as effective, most Battlemechs are designed to use ammunition, either for missiles or autocannons. Loss of missile ammunition meant no long-range fire (from long-range missiles) and no up-close smashes (from short-range missiles), and loss of autocannon ammunition meant that Clan 'mechs were running very hot in heavy engagements, reducing their effectiveness before they were even in sight of their goals, forcing them to retreat in the face of the overwhelming firepower of ComStar forces.
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Easy Logistics / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time series, this trope gives certain armies a significant advantage over others. The trollocs don't need supply lines because they eat whatever's around, including their own dead if need be, though because they're mostly pinned down in the Blight, this factor doesn't apply until they gather sufficient numbers to effectively invade the southern countries. The Seanchan have Giant Flyers which are used mainly as scouts, but the larger ones can also carry shock troops or emergency supplies to help the rest of the army move more quickly. Around the midpoint of the series, Traveling is rediscovered. Although there aren't enough magic-users to move a large army from one place to another, they can move supply wagons, allowing any army to move much faster.
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Easy Logistics / int_911c2f17	comment	Averted in Aurora. All ships have fuel and any ship classified as military needs maintenance. Missiles need to be designed, built and possibly shipped to the vessels/ In version 5.70 when it comes out one will also have to deal with regular leave of shores for the crew of their ships. And that's just considering the ship part. Logistics is hard in all parts of the game. The only exception is that all officers, administrators and scientists seem to have a teleportation device that allows them to be deployed wherever the player wants instantly.
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Easy Logistics / int_93f31be7	comment	X: Rebirth takes some steps in alleviate the logistics nightmare of previous games, at least in regards to fleet resupply. In previous games, Carriers were a nightmare to manage without a carrier automation script, as new fighters had to be acquired from a shipyard, new weapons and upgrades had to be sourced as fighters only came with half their max weapons loadout, then the fighters had to be docked to the carrier and typically assigned to a flight wing. And with the earlier games' signature Artificial Stupidity and Wall Bonking, fighter attrition rates could be atrocious and bring financial ruin. In Rebirth, all capital ships now launch autonomous Attack Drones which while weaker than fighters, are significantly easier and cheaper to replace.
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Easy Logistics / int_951c41c1	comment	Slight aversion in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. It's difficult to stick to a set party that continually gets more powerful with level ups like the other games in the series or in fact any other Strategy Role Playing Game despite what you'd expect. This is due to a fatigue meter that makes units tire out if they're deployed in too many subsequent battles, forcing you to switch around your party to keep them fresh.
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Easy Logistics / int_977c980a	comment	The Sleeping Beauty: Siegfried calms down some of the panicking Eltarian nobility by pointing out that this trope is not in effect, and no conquering army can possibly mobilize in time to attack before the volunteer hostages ... er, that should be "princes vying for Princess Rosa's hand" ... begin arriving.
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Easy Logistics / int_97e6e69c	comment	In Foxhole, the game's real meat is in Averting this trope. Resources must be collected in the battlefield and must be transported to facilities that produce actual war material. The weapons, equipment, and vehicles must then be taken to the front lines or otherwise distributed to your army. Crippling the enemy supply line is critical for victory, they can't fight without weapons and armor, and these convoys are vulnerable to attack. Capturing certain towns can flat-out deny the enemy the production facilities to produce vehicles or medical suppliesâ€”in the case of vehicles, a lack of supply trucks will further hamper the enemy's ability to move what resources they have.
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Easy Logistics / int_98da2344	comment	Air Force Delta Series plays this straight as is par for arcade-styled flight sim shooters.
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Easy Logistics / int_9935b6a0	comment	Sort-of averted by Theme Park, which on higher complexity levels requires the player to buy stock for their shops.
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Easy Logistics / int_999855bb	comment	Heroes of Might and Magic: An army led by a hero who has learned the "Logistics" skill can move farther every turn—the implication being he or she has been educated in more efficient ways to bring along food and water, or in how to forage for them in the field, and so can bring along the same amount of supplies more quickly (perhaps by having big dragons carry them) or bring along less and forage for the rest. There is no mention of how you gather food or ammunition for your troops, but in one case, no such explanation is needed. On some campaign maps, you lose resources because your supply lines are raided by bandits or the enemy as a scripted event but supply lines have no effect in actual gameplay. Certain units in earlier games could grant you small movement bonuses if they themselves have a high speed characteristic (which is understandable, since a centaur and a dragon move MUCH faster than a dwarf lugging around his chest). Likewise slower units tend to slow your army down. Note that there are some structures, such as mills, mines and monasteries, whose products don't quite waft over to your central coffers offscreen. They will generate a certain amount of resources each week (which accumulate,) but a hero has to visit in person to pick it up (at which point it will instantly zip over to your reserves.) The only boon granted by ownership is the ability to station some of your mooks there as a garrison. Actual supply lines are introduced in the dwarf add-on to Heroes V, in the form of caravans from creature dwellings. Rather than having to hire heroes to "do the rounds" of the various creature dwellings around the map (tedious micromanaging to say the least), you can now hire them directly from a town, at which point they'll spawn a caravan that'll move toward the city each turn. You can also hire one city's creatures from the next city over, resulting in the same thing. Raiding the enemy's caravans is a good strategy: better to face one week's worth of unled creatures today than a month's worth of mooks led by your enemy's best hero tomorrow. Caravans do exist in Heroes IV, but they are much less realistic and much more powerful. You only need a clear path between source and destination to set the caravan on its way. After that, it doesn't appear on the map so it can't be intercepted. These caravans also work between towns, so it's possible to quickly send heroes over to defend a town just before the enemy arrives. There also exist Ammo Carts, which have the sole purpose to resupplying your ranged units so that they dont run out of ammo during a battle. While in earlier games most units carried enough arrows/harpoons/bullets/bile to almost never run out of ammo during a single battle, in Heroes V some units only get 2 shots, making them very important. Units regenerate their shots after battle, possibly explained by the fact that they might have looted their enemy's corpses or retrieved their equipment.
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Easy Logistics / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer: Up until Tiberian Sun, the only way to repair a vehicle was to put it on a repair facility, which avoided the hammerspace issue by being larger than the units it was repairing (it also drained money, and, naturally, immobilized the unit being repaired). Repairing buildings with an engineer, however, played that part straight. Command & Conquer: Generals averts this one to some degree: your units never get tired or run out of fuel, and their ammo is infinite, but the ones that fire missiles do have to wait before they can reload their projectiles. By extension, this also means fighter planes and bombers must return to a nearby airport after hitting their target. As well, any and all attack/abilities/reinforcements that require an airplane to deliver it anywhere on the field can be shot down before dropping their payload, though impractical in a serious game. Aircraft in all the Command & Conquer games tend to play it both ways: Those that are permanently airborne, like the Kirov Airship in the Red Alert series and most of the games' helicopters, are treated as having unlimited fuel and munitions; at best, there is a short cooldown timer between attack runs. How they are repaired is also questionable. Fixed wing aircraft are handle a little more unusually. They must return to an Airbase structure once they have exhausted their munitions, or for repairs. However, damage has little effect on their airworthiness (until they reach Critical Existence Failure) and they can loiter in the air indefinitely — unless their Airbase is destroyed, at which point they apparently begin to consume fuel (which damages the plane, somehow) and will crash when it runs out.
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Easy Logistics / int_9bb385be	comment	Pharaoh: Goods still have to be carted from one end of the city to the other (as the cart pushers will happily remind you), but storage yards can be told to refuse certain types of goods so as to make sure everything goes where it's supposed to. It also allows a small amount of control over service providers via roadblocks: the cartpushers ignore them, but walkers will turn around and stay out of places where they're useless. Requests for goods from other cities are instantly taken away without needing to arrange their transportation. similarly, gifts from other cities are added instantly to the city's yards. Unfortunately, food requests can only be taken out of storage yards. The biggest Acceptable Break from Reality, however, is the fact that a recruiter only has to walk past a house for his job to have workers taken out of the entire workforce, so you can have a massive mining complex with all necessary support buildings employing hundreds apparently crewed by five people living in a hut, then turn off the mines to free up the workers if, say, your educational system or military needs workers.Unfortunately, the fact that recruiters don't always pop out from the most convenient corner of the building means a lot of extra planning involving roadblocks (and sometimes those don't work, the building remaining unstaffed because the recruiter spawns in the middle of the roadblocks and is immediately despawned) and wasted road space. The need for simplification causes its own problems: storage facilities send out one cart at a time, making it not unusual to see as many storage yards as there are types of goods. Similarly, maritime trade is hamperd by the fact that trade ships dump all their goods simultaneously at the first dock they see instead of going to another one, tying up traffic while they wait for carts to return. Stored food never goes bad. It's possible to put the mission's very first harvest in a yard as insurance and still see it there decades or centuries later at the mission's end.
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Easy Logistics / int_9c6ceb95	comment	In Age of Wonders, each unit costs a small amount of gold (or mana for summoned creatures) each turn. If you cannot pay their morale will suffer and they may desert you (summons will disappear immediately). However, it only matters that you have the resources at all. Supply lines are not addressed.
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Easy Logistics / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Averted in Macross Delta: Chaos cannot launch an immediate counteroffensive after Windermere conquers the whole Brisingr Cluster because they've used up almost all their munitions in the last battle and, with their employers, the worlds of the Brisingr Cluster, having been overrun and thus being unable to pay, cannot buy any more, much less afford the spare parts to repair their refugee ship: being mercenaries and not government military, Chaos doesnâ€™t have direct access to the New UN's Factory Satellites but has to buy all their weapons and munitions. This gets solved when a mining consortium with interests in the Brisingr Cluster hire them to retake it, but even then they have to wait until the supplies show up.
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Easy Logistics / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: A a Dothraki invasion of Westeros is seen as a very real threat to the latter. However, this would require the Dothraki to sail over the Narrow Sea... despite the Dothraki considering the sea "poison water" (as their horses cannot drink it) and refusing to sail on it. Even if the Dothraki could overcome their cultural aversion to sea travel, acquire the literal thousands of ships it would take to transport a sizable cavalry invasion force, and learn how to crew them/get slaves to crew them, they could still be stopped by Westeros' naval forces (who'd be much better at naval warfare than the Dothraki, not having a cultural aversion to sea travel). This is without getting into any logistical issues they'd face upon landing in Westeros, the fact that they'd be facing a lot of fortifications, and the fact that their enemies would both outnumber them and be better-equipped. Ned Stark points out these problems, yet other characters still consider Dothraki invasion something to worry about. In a non-military case of this, the city of King's Landing is said to have a population of around 500,000—to put it simply, this is a huge sum for what's meant to be a medieval city, on par with Constantinople at its height and more than double the high-end estimates of Paris. It's claimed to get most of its food from the Reach, taking a land route up the Roseroad. The Reach is 900 miles away from King's Landing, with the only major thing in between for resupply being the castle of Highgarden. It should take a phenomenal amount of organization, funding, and bureaucracy to keep King's Landing fed, as well as a lot of control over constituent kingdoms. Yet a major idea in the books is that the Crownlands are fairly hands-off in its rule, and the administration of King's Landing is corrupt and uncaring to extremes and struggles with basic taxation of the other kingdoms.
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Easy Logistics / int_a0b707e6	comment	In Star Traders: Frontiers, the only thing you need to keep your ship running is fuel, which is available for purchase at most planets and space stations. You can also get fuel by stealing it from defeated enemy ships or finding it on patrol runs. You don't have to worry about other ship supply issues like ammunition or provisions.
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Easy Logistics / int_a2e4d29e	comment	Averted often in A Cold Calculus. To give a few examples: Just after the Shinjuku incident, Ohgi's resistance cell runs low on supplies for everything to the point where they're unable to handle any major operations for a good while. Also, while Kallen loses her Glasgow and manages to steal a Pureblood's Sutherland, that actually makes things more difficult for them as they're unable to find an energy filler for it without drawing attention to themselves. During the Refrain arc, we see Inoue and Kallen do a supply run. Inoue works at Keio Hospital, which lacks personnel, power and supplies due to being essentially a charity-funded operation in the ghettos. Part of Euphie's hearts-and-minds campaign has them send aid to there and like places while also reaching out to the Sumeragi House to get a start on uplifting the conditions, basic and economic, of the Japanese people. The author has also reduced the omnipresence Knightmare Frames had in canon due to the logistics needed to field (and lose) them in such numbers as we see in the show. This means that infantry, armor and jet fighters have beefed up roles. Also, no Knight Police. Some of the background information points out that one of the key advantages that Britannia has in the war against the EU is that Britannia is one nation, so all their units are standardized to use the same gear. The European Union is a coalition of twenty or so nations, each of which has their own military supplied by their own contractors, which complicates their logistics considerably. One simple example provided is that the Western, Central and Eastern European nations each standardized on a different caliber of ammunition for their rifles, which means that they have to keep track of which units need which types of clips if they don't want them to be totally useless. The Britannian Army only has one type of rifle issued to the general infantry, which means they only need one type of clip.
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Easy Logistics / int_a33d74a4	comment	Sword of Truth: The Imperial Order's army is so ridiculously huge, keeping it supplied should be much harder than it is. Then again, they've got a vast empire that is supplying them, and they're mentioned as also raiding everywhere they go for supplies.
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Easy Logistics / int_a3402a3	comment	Total Annihilation requires the (raygun-based) weapons of all units to consume energy from your main resource pool in order to fire, how said energy GOT to your forces is another question.
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Easy Logistics / int_a4c36b62	comment	Planetside 2: Played straight with infantry weapons and averted with vehicle weapons. Infantry weapons can be restocked by an engineer throwing down an supply box roughly the size of a man's open hand or at any infantry based terminal. Vehicles on the other hand require either a landing pad (for aircraft) or an ammo tower (for land vehicles). Also a purchasable perk for a Sunderer allows you to restock/repair nearby vehicles, which plays this trope straight. This is given a justification with the ACE system, basically nano machines which are capable of constructing anything from tanks to bullets. Also, the spawning of aircraft, vehicles and people plays this straight. Exceptions are main battle tanks,note Which require tech plants to spawn outside your main base. and the Galaxy.note Which can only spawn at your factions main base and at tech plants. Also, some terminals are only for spawning transports, meaning they can only spawn The Sunderer or The Flash.
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Easy Logistics / int_a574e145	comment	The Draka: The Domination somehow managed to conquer the entirety of the African continent, starting from a single small British colony that declared independence. Furthermore, this all started at the time of the American Revolutionary War, when medical, food, and supply technology were all unsuited for large-scale campaigns (disease and starvation killed far more soldiers than the enemy), and there were no roads or other infrastructure in Africa to make it easier. The Draka just steamrolled their way across the continent until they were a superpower no one could stop.
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Easy Logistics / int_a69d1aaa	comment	In The Fallen World, dungeons can magically produce their own resources and it is only an issue of generating enough mana to cover their expensices. Alexandra takes this one step further by creating a complex underground factory to save on costs. Averted with the Republic's expeditionary force, who had trouble requisitioning enough airships to transport the supplies they needed for the wasteland crossing, in part due to the senate's corruption but also a lack of ships meant for crossing the wasteland. The loss of one convoy was enough to make the general stall his advancement.
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Easy Logistics / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	Zig-zagged in the storyline to Legend of the Five Rings, generally Depending on the Writer. Canonically, the Lion Clan are masters of logistics and train their troops extensively to march and make/break camp extensively. This means that they can move armies across hundreds of miles much faster than other clans, which has given them a major advantage in a number of conflicts. The Scorpion Clan, being full of Ninja, excel at using intelligence, sabotage, and bribery to hinder enemy logistics, making up for their smaller military. The Crane Clan has specialized units of harriers that do much the same on a smaller scale. The Unicorn Clan seems to be immune to any logistical considerations, based apparently on the idea that horses are faster than humans without considering that cavalry require much MORE logistical support than infantry. Several L5R writers apparently think that an army with twenty thousand horses can cover hundreds of miles with just a few short stops to graze on the local grasses.
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Easy Logistics / int_a9570fac	comment	Victoria: The Victorians largely dispense with logistics and intelligence, and most military conventions in place of plaid-coated militia, even equipping and training National Guard units in the same way. They still easily squash the competition, largely by attacking their supplies. As a further example, there are no computers in Victoria, save a handful used by their military to somehow hack their enemies. The book doesn't even handwave all of the massive supply issues they should be facing, particularly the absurdity of keeping ancient Soviet T-34 tanks functional without appropriate parts, maintaining any kind of information warfare capability with only a small number of computers, or keeping any of their troops supplied when the narrator explictly says that most of the rear support elements of an army are unnecessary and the Confederacy phases them out. It's a wonder none of the Confederacy's troops desert en masse due to mass starvation.
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Easy Logistics / int_ad99e74b	comment	Averted in No Greater Glory, which is set during The American Civil War. Every area generates a certain amount of supplies, and each unit requires supplies. During the strategic movement phase, you must bring those supplies, generally from the rear areas, to the troops, who tend to be concentrated at the front. You have a limited supply of rail and sea-lift capacity with which to move supplies, although it is possible to build more each turn, and every unit thereof which you use to move supplies is not available to move troops, and vice versa. Riverine transport is infinite, but can only move along friendly-controlled sections of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries. The same is true for rail and sea-lift: the former can only move along existing railroads and the latter can only move from one friendly port to another. If a unit is under-supplied, it will requisition supplies from the area in which it is located. If the deficit is not too great, that may just involve paying a premium; otherwise, you will damage the economy and alienate the population of the area. Also, under-supplied units take greater losses to disease and desertion. There is some abstraction in that supplies are simply a single generic quantity: you do not have to worry about providing an army with a reasonably balanced diet, multiple kinds of ammunition, different sorts of medicines, etc., just "supplies." Even with that, however, managing logistics is the most important aspect of the game, and consumes by far the most time and energy from the player.
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Easy Logistics / int_aedc983a	comment	Played with by the Wing Commander series. In Wing Commander I, one of the escort missions on the losing path is for two tankers to refuel the Tiger's Claw. Lose them both, and you've effectively lost the campaign.note You would still play the next mission, plus the four in Hell's Kitchen. If at least one survives, thennote provided you went at least even on the other two missions you go to Rostov where the winner effectively takes the sector. In Wing Commander II, one of the escort missions is for a transport hauling missiles to resupply the Concordia, and if you fail the mission you're supposed to not have any more missiles. However, failure doesn't seem to actually affect whether or not your fighter goes out with missiles in later missions.
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Easy Logistics / int_afc86b0a	comment	Ender's Game takes averting this to a new level — the logistics of an interstellar war in a universe without FTL travel are so difficult that they're essentially impossible, as it would literally take years for any supply ships to reach a deployed fleet. So they don't even try — every fleet is essentially sent out on a suicide mission, having been given enough supplies to reach their target system and fight one battle, after which they will either have taken the system and can colonize it, or they will be dead.
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Easy Logistics / int_b1058237	comment	Constantly averted in the Temeraire series. A subject that gets mentioned at least a couple of times per book is the inherent difficulty of keeping multi-tonne flying carnivores fed, innovating solutions to this is a major advantage to whoever comes up with them, and in Blood of Tyrants the lack of proper infrastructure poses considerable problems for the Chinese reinforcements sent to aid Russia even before the starving inmates of the latter's breeding grounds are set loose.
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Easy Logistics / int_b1adde8b	comment	In (only) two of the games, Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War, all artillery pieces and Naval ships have unlimited ammo. Infantry and cavalry still have limited ammo in those two games
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Easy Logistics / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones runs off of this trope with lords able to raise up armies of tens of thousands of men and move them around a continent at will. Daenerys Targaryen herself gains a force of some 8000 Unsullied warriors and 5000 untrained boys that are not yet Unsullied; she is then able to march this force through a desert and take city after city without a single mention of supply lines or who's running any of the logistics. It gets even worse come seasons 7 and 8, as now these ostensibly medieval armies can seemingly teleport around the continent and move without supply lines or anyone even noticing them.
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Easy Logistics / int_b373f901	comment	In Codes And Geass: Embracing Your Inner Megalomania, during a raid for supplies, the Black Knights make sure to have a list of exactly what they need. When the enemy commander blows up the base, Cornelia is furious as the base itself was a vital part of the Area's supply chain, making it more valuable than it's contents, and Zero couldn't have the forces to take and hold the locationnote Zero himself states that if the Black Knights had the capability to hold a military base so close to the capital, they'd have enough to simply take the capital itself.
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Easy Logistics / int_b562db72	comment	Averted in the Hegemony Series. You'll need to keep track of where your food's going, and if your army has none, don't expect it to last too long in combat.
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Easy Logistics / int_b5a03cec	comment	Robotech is one long aversion: the advanced technology that gives the name to the series is powered by Protoculture, a very specific fuel made from the Invid Flower of Life being processed through the Protoculture Matrix... And the only remaining supply of Flower of Life was on a ship that crashed on Earth, and the fight for that source is the entire reason for the first two arcs. The motif remains present in the New Generation saga, as while the Robotech Expeditionary Force has managed to set up its own plantations of Flower of Life and has a Matrix and the Invid have control of Earth (now teeming with the Flower) and have the knowledge to mass-produce the Protoculture Matrix, Scott's group is a small resistance cell stranded on Invid-controlled Earth and is often short on Protoculture supplies for their vehicles and weapons. The trope returns on large scale in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles: when the SDF-3 Pioneer disappeared it was carrying the REF Protoculture Matrix and the one guy who knew how to make more, and while the Invid are not hostile anymore-and in fact they now have a common enemy with the REF-they have disappeared to parts unknown.
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Easy Logistics / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The reason orc armies are so dangerous is because Orc Lords have the special Starvation ability, which not only gives them a Cannibalism Superpower that lets them absorb the abilities of those they eat, but also means that so long as the Orc Lord eats, no one in his army can starve to death. Characters point out that this is why a 200,000 sized Orc army can keep going without any supply lines. The downside is that they still feel hungry, turning them into a mindless horde that will devour anything and everything in its path. Averted with Rimuru; much of the story is about him securing supplies for his people and growing nation, and he solves a lot of problems just by introducing basic plumbing. Quite a bit of time is spent focusing on also finding and training the qualified people who will help keep the economical and military machines running smoothly without him micromanaging everything and driving himself insane with stress. Being the superpower with control over the Jura Forest and all its natural resources, combined with no shortage of land to turn into various farmland and sites for various specialized structures, owning one of the most valuable trade centers in the entire world, and being allied with some of the most influential and powerful beings on the planet who have their own vested interests in ensuring the Jura-Tempest Federation's success for their own benefits, all help smooth out the logistical issues immensely. The fact he and his many of his spellcasters devise a Teleportation spell that can safely transport dozens to hundreds of people and equipment across miles at a time only limited by their Mana storages is treated as a breakthrough with an incredible edge in times of war.
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Easy Logistics / int_b70de397	comment	In The Dilgar War, the main obstacle to the Dilgar effort in the first phase of the war is the continuous extension of their supply lines, an obstacle made worse when the Drazi got the drop on half their cargo ships and destroyed them. Things get much worse with Earth Alliance's entry in the war and their concentrated effort to demolish the Dilgar merchant fleet, and by the time of the battle of Balos (the last chance for the Dilgar to stop EarthForce and the League before they can reach the Dilgar homeworld) the Dilgar fleet assembled there has no fuel to move somewhere else. On the other hand, the main trouble for EarthForce is the need to bring their supplies to the front all the way from Earth Alliance space, and while they're better at defending them they get in trouble during the Balos campaign when the Dilgar manage to destroy the main stockpile near the front.
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Easy Logistics / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade averts this to an extent on the "Risk"-Style Map, where you can only attack an area your army are next to, unless you've captured the Pavonis Spaceport on the "Risk"-Style Map. Owning it gives you access to Applied Phlebotinum capable of plotting air insert missions avoiding the hostile fleets in orbit. Basically, you can attack anywhere except the six enemy strongholds (because they have heavy anti-air defenses). The main RTS sections plays this straight. Soulstorm pays lip service to the idea by introducing a "broken supply lines" mechanic where provinces on another planet that aren't connected to your stronghold via other provinces only give part of their requisition every turn. Chaos and Dark Eldar armies, who move around via the Warp / the Webway respectively, have no such restrictions.
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Easy Logistics / int_bdcd318c	comment	Averted in Son of the Sannin when Jiraiya asks Rasa and Mei for help in retaking Takigakure from Akatsuki in a week's time. Mei is quick to point out that it would be pretty much impossible for her to get back to her village, rally her forces, and arrive before the fighting is over (since Kirigakure is in practically the opposite direction and across the sea) and instead focuses her efforts on preparing supplies to help rebuild once the fighting is over.
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Easy Logistics / int_beb4066f	comment	Warhammer 40000 Spacemarine takes care to avert this as well as possible in both story and game mechanics. There are several points where jury-rigged Ork systems have to be destroyed, since about 99% of their gear is either straight looted or cobbled-together scrap, rather than carrying it all with them; similarly, more than one mission involves reactivating power and freeing up other supplies for the defending Imperial Guard, the first third of the game being the destruction of anti-air weaponry to allow said supplies and reinforcements to reach the surface. The trope is played straight for the player, one of the titular Space Marines, and his squad, but it's also justified in the fact that a Space Marine has enough food/water kept in the backpack of his Power Armor to last for days on end, and all the new ammo/weapons you picked up have either been sent via freefalling Drop Pod or are scattered about because the battle takes place on a Forge World dedicated to producing weapons and Titans for the Imperium. There's also a small example of a Guardsman bemoaning this not being played straight for him in spite of expectations, as they are on a previously-mentioned Forge World which are all directly ruled by the Adeptus Mechanicus faction of the Imperium, yet no Tech-priests are around and he's stuck trying to fix stuff.
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Easy Logistics / int_bff01809	comment	While Warhammer usually takes the efficacy of supply lines as a given, and focuses entirely on the drama of the actual combat engagement, there have been forays in the past into ways of representing supply lines and logistics should players be keen to do so. The most involved was undoubtedly the original Mighty Empires game — which could be played entirely on its own as a simulation of warring empires, but was designed with the notion in mind that when armies clash across the game map you play Warhammer battles to decide the outcome. In Mighty Empires each army piece had to maintain an unbroken, uncontested supply line of friendly tiles back to one of the player's home cities, or it began to lose troops rapidly and would eventually disappear. It also had to return to its home city during the winter season, just as real ancient and medieval armies were usually forced to do.
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Easy Logistics / int_c00c0023	comment	Empire Earth: Only averted during specific missions, otherwise the game uses Easy Logistics all the way. One Greek mission tells you to gather your citizens inside the walls to protect them from the Spartan siege, leaving the fields undefended. You can't build farms or fishing boats, instead bringing in food shipments from allied cities. Plague also strikes until there's enough food. One German mission has you protect cargoes as they run the British Naval Blockade. Another starts you off with huge amounts of every resource as you build an army. If you hit the cap or are spotted by the enemy, the resources get taken away.
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Easy Logistics / int_c0589b98	comment	Averted in Call of Duty: Black Ops III where it is brought up in both dialogue and mentioned in the Codex that Proxy War between the Egyptian Army and the NRC leans heavily in the favor of the latter due to logistics. To elaborate the entire war was started when the Nile started drying up due to a combination of Global Warming and the NRC's dam projects. By the time of the time of the game the Egyptian has been driven back to Cairo which itself has been mostly taken over by the NRC due to the Egyptians lack of water and other supplies. The only reason they are fighting in this Dam War is because they still have a fully functional DEAD System and the NRC ends up taking that too.
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Easy Logistics / int_c0eae17	comment	Total War: Averted when bringing the game to the real-time portion (ie. starting a battle). Your troops can get easily tired if moving any faster than marching speed (and if you march too much, too), including cavalry. All projectile weapons have ammunition limits (Archers have limited arrows and backup knives, certain infantry units can throw javelins before closing in with swords, etc.) Also averted in the strategic part of the game, where all units have an upkeep cost to be paid each turn, symbolizing the need to pay, equip and feed the men. No actual supply lines to manage, though. The lack of supply lines however, means you can pretty much move your army anywhere at anytime and suffer no penalties. Middle of the desert? No worries. Middle of winter? Keep marching! Take a city in the middle of enemy territory? It's only an issue if another army is physically there to besiege it, being in the middle of someone elses territory in no way hinders its ability to function as a city. Things like deserts, hills and the dead of winter are represented in the game. During the winter, income is generally lower and armies are unable to march as far. Marching through difficult terrain cuts their movement even more severely. Note that hostile armies inside enemy territory do reduce that territory's income, as the enemy army is considered to be pillaging from the land (this is shown by having the ground around the unit slowly be burned down). Also, the further a territory is from your capital city, the lower its maximum happiness is. Though this penalty is not affected by being isolated from the nations other territories by enemy provinces, there is a separate penalty to a town's max happiness if that province is surrounded by enemies... Although, your troops can pillage from farmland, frozen tundra or desert, with equal ease. A recently captured city may very well rebel and chuck you and your troops out, on its own, If it isn't kept happy enough (sometimes rejoining its previous owner, sometimes becoming an isolated rebel settlement). Many games have the problem of being able to recruit or retrain faction-specific units anywhere with basic facilities where it wouldn't make sense, (excepting the Romans who did (eventually) recruit most of their troops abroad, and the Shogun games that take place in a Civil War). The Medieval II Expansion Pack Kingdoms fixes this two separate ways: In its Teutonic, Americas and Crusades campaigns, many units require converting the conquered territory to your religion a certain amount, before you can recruit or retrain more than basic levies from it. In the Britannia campaign, after conquering a province of a different culture, you can only recruit units of the nation you conquered it from, until a governor converts the Provence to your culture enough to recruit or retrain your own. This realism has been integrated into various mods as well (requiring that you own Kingdoms to install them). In (only) two of the games, Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War, all artillery pieces and Naval ships have unlimited ammo. Infantry and cavalry still have limited ammo in those two games From Napoleon onwards, the games have an attrition mechanic, meaning that soldiers that aren't near a friendly city will suffer losses in winter as men die from rough terrain supply difficulties and weather conditions, and in Shogun 2, merely from being in enemy territory during winter. In the popular Stainless Steel series of mods, there is an option to create logistics, where your soldiers can buy army supplies in a city. Running out of supplies forces your army to resort to foraging, and keeping any army deployed for more than a few turns causes morale penalties in combat. Thrones of Britannia and Three Kingdoms sees individual armies having their own "Supplies" number. This number increases while in friendly territory and decreases in non-friendly territory. While it's depleted, the army's units will see attrition reduce their units, from some combination of starvation and men abandoning the army's desperate straits. A variety of factors in both games affects how many supplies allied and enemy units get or lose in both kinds of territory (most notably, having more food means getting more supplies from friendly territory and lacking food can mean supplies won't replenish even in friendly cities) - and through some combination of experience skills, technology, items and traits, generals may be outright capable of causing their army to get some sort of Easy Logistics and never, ever have to resupply even while in enemy territory.
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Easy Logistics / int_c175ea0c	comment	In the Dungeons games, this is zig-zagged. Units need certain resources: the Horde requires beer, while the Demons require rooms dedicated to admiring them and the Undead need rooms devoted to letting them relax. They also need to be regularly paid, but this can be circumvented in the first couple of games by sending them out of the dungeon to fight (and die) before they collect their pay. Horde units also don't need to drink on the surface, with the game lampshading this by mentioning the air is more moist up above. In the third game, units on the overworld automatically collect their pay without needing to go visit the treasury.
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Easy Logistics / int_c2320bee	comment	Defied in Power Rangers Mythos; during a mission in Wales to track down a recent mass purchase of cows that they speculate has been carried out by their foe, the titular Mythos Rangers are able to intercept one such convoy, but their mentor confirms that they don't have the time or resources to track down every other such convoy.
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Easy Logistics / int_c3702c68	comment	Zeus: Master of Olympus: Recruitment logistics are made even easier by the fact that workers are taken instantly from the workforce as a whole, no more Industrial Ghetto crewed by the half-dozen inhabitants of a tent propped up with sticks. Trade with other cities is now done by giving each city its own trading post/dock, giving you more control over what goods need to be carted a long way away. Armies are recruited from the population, with standard housing providing ranged troops (since they also provide workers, they're best used sparingly to prevent economic meltdown) and elite housing providing infantry and cavalry (and in fact need armor/horses to progress). Because of this, only the elites can be sent abroad to aid in defending an allied city or conquering enemies.
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Easy Logistics / int_c3e9076e	comment	Averted to an extent in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, as a sector's proximity to resources increases efficiency, while cut-off ones suffer large penalties.
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Easy Logistics / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: The koloss are massive Super Soldiers with Super-Strength and Super-Toughness who can each fight dozens of ordinary soldiers by themselves. Their real advantage, however, is that they can eat anything—even dirt—making them very cheap to keep in fighting shape.
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Easy Logistics / int_c52ba890	comment	Averted in the Caesar games with buildings that require raw materials or labour. Raw materials are distributed by handcarts that must be pushed through your streets and each building only generates one cart. This means that importing more than one type of raw material (olives, timber, iron ore, etc.) can lead to production buildings standing idle most of the time. Also, the random paths taken by service providers can easily deprive a house of things it needs to maintain its status for no apparent reason.
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Easy Logistics / int_c6c80a57	comment	Creeper World: Significantly less easy than most games, you must build a physical network that connects your structures and units to your HQ building to keep them supplied with energy. Structures that are cut off cease functioning entirely, while units that are cut off still function but quickly run out of ammo. Your units can still move even without energy though.
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Easy Logistics / int_c7d0169f	comment	Averted in An Entry with a Bang!! GDI forces ran low on supplies after the battle to take Port Krin. Also, one of the key meta-arguments in having GDI go for a standardized equipment loadout is to ease supply lines.
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Easy Logistics / int_c817dfde	comment	Averted in M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration, where all units have limited ammunition, and repair units — though they still get the job done peculiarly quickly, and don't carry any spare parts — need to carry resources to do their work, and will run out if not re-supplied. Ammunition supply trucks are an essential part of any force that strays far from their base, and units will often have cause to return to a depot for repair, resupply, or upgrading. Most buildings must also be connected directly to storage or production sites for the power and resources they need in order to function, and these links can become a weak spot for a poorly-planned base.
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Easy Logistics / int_c8aa852	comment	Averted in Unity Of Command. The maintenance of a stable supply line is the only way that attacking troops can continue their offensive deep into enemy territory. Once units are at the end of their supply tethers, they'll be more vulnerable to the enemy on subsequent turns.
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Easy Logistics / int_cbad9b62	comment	Deconstructed in Legend of the Galactic Heroes where, in a broad analog to Operation Barbarossa (listed in Real Life below), ambitious members of the Free Planets Alliance military propose a grand "liberation" of planets in Imperial space, which the political leadership signs off on because a decisive victory will help them score points in the upcoming elections. When more sensible members of the senior officer corps point out that the Alliance doesn't have the resources to support such a campaign and that their supply lines will be overstretched and vulnerable, the planners naively assert that they'll be able to requisition whatever supplies they need from the planets they conquer. Unfortunately, by this time the Empire's war effort is being directed by genius strategist Reinhard von Lohengramm, who uses a scorched-earth policy and raids against those very unguarded supply lines to cripple the Alliance's space navy. While the war continues for almost three years more, the enormous losses in the merchant fleet and combat elements (the latter caused in no small part by the fleet being undersupplied) suffered in this this campaign prove decisive for the ultimate Imperial victory.
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Easy Logistics / int_cc69e03e	comment	VGA Planets: Doesn't get down into the nitty-gritty, but you do have devote some attention to logistics: you need four kinds of minerals and cash to build your spaceships, and to keep them supplied with torpedeoes, fighters and (especially) fuel. You can only build and re-crew ships at your starbases. And minerals are a limited resource, sooner or later you need to build refinery ships and churn out Supplies in planet-bound Factories to operate them. Some factions in the game have to worry more about this than others, for example the Crystals survive by spewing fields of web-mines, which require endless material inputs.
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Easy Logistics / int_ccffdd1f	comment	Averted in Dominions 3. Magic gems (the 'ammunition' for powerful battlefield spells) are very limited and hard to get out to the troops in the field. Each province has a supply limit, and units will starve, develop diseases, etc if a province is overstuffed. In battle, units build up fatigue which reduces their combat effectiveness. Some spells increase this—"Curse of Stones," for instance, drastically increases the fatigue cost of moving in armor to the point that a huge, heavily-armed force with low magic resistance can be easily decimated by a small force of archers it would otherwise crush, simply because it's too tiring to march up to melee range, and the army's morale is crushed by the constant arrow fire.
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Easy Logistics / int_cd6d8488	comment	MechCommander series of BattleTech: Played with, at least in the second game. While mechs can go on for miles without losing juice (since they're powered by contained, but volatile nuclear fusion reactors), their weapons are subject to ammo depletion and overheating. Replenishment of ammo and health requires the deployment of a Repair Truck. Suffice to say, the Repair Truck defies the repair unit stereotype hard. To repair and reload a mech, the mech in question must be immobilized and shut down first. And unlike Bottomless Spare Parts repairers, each Repair Truck only carries a limited truckload of spare parts and ammo (called repair resources), meaning that once the Repair Truck runs out of resources left to spend, you're not getting that Truck back. But what makes it Easy Logistics: the Repair Truck seemingly has only one kind of repair resource — whether it's a damaged limb that needs to be fixed or a gun that needs to be reloaded, it's all taken care of by the same resource pool. Also worth pointing out that in both games ammunition availability is Hand Waved in The Manual. In the first, it is mentioned that plenty of ammo has been landed on the planet as part of the invasion force, and that running out over the course of the campaign is not something to worry about, though making sure the mechs in the field have access to enough of it between returns to base is still an issue. In the second, it is mentioned that the contract the player's group of mercenaries has negotiated include ammunition expenses, so the more they shoot the more they can afford to restock. Infinite Ammunition can be turned off in the settings for gameplay missions. Ingame that can make beam weapons considerably more useful when missiles and solid shell weapons run out.
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Easy Logistics / int_cd713f4	comment	Used as a major plot point in The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, where interstellar conquest has long been seen as impossible because of logistics issues. It turns out that the conquerors were actually setting up revolutionary groups on each planet beforehand then marching in as they launched their revolutions.
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Easy Logistics / int_cdc9d1b1	comment	Averted in Earth 2150. Units using bullet, cannon or rocket weapons have a limited supply of ammunition that must be replenished by helicopters going back and forth between the units and ammo depots. This particular example serves very well to explain why the logistics problem is usually handwaved. There are long stretches of time where you're twiddling your thumbs waiting for the helicopters to reach your force that's on the other side of the map, they often miss some units and thus necessitate painstaking micromanagement to replenish your entire force, and they'll get shot down by enemy defenses. They are, in other words, a big pain, and the game would have been far better off without them. Also averted in its sequel, Earth 2160. Only without the helicopters: ammo is either delivered via long-range projectile or delivered via nearby flying metal generator.
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Easy Logistics / int_cec99ed9	comment	The Safehold series averts this, with several scenes of the Church of God Awaiting's treasurer Rhobair Duchairn focusing on how he's in charge of getting their military forces fed, equipped, moved and how he's supposed to pay for it. This becomes especially apparent in the later books featuring the Siddarmarkian Civil War, where logistics, or cutting them off, can become a crucial factor.
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Easy Logistics / int_cf98de53	comment	In Call of Duty (and perhaps several others) when you simply receive a resupply of ammunition for your weapons from the last mission, it makes one wonder how the Allies can resupply a soldier carrying a Gewehr 43 and a Sturmgewehr 44. Aside from the question why said soldier would be using German weaponry.
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Easy Logistics / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse: Both series place logistics as a primary concern in the massive invasions they follow. More soldiers die in the Holy War during the marching than in the actual battles. In the second series, the logistics of the Great Ordeal take 20 years for an Impossible Genius to plan and implement, and even then, he has to plan for the army to start eating their enemy midway through. One of the aspects of Sranc that makes them so dangerous is their ability to live on practically anything, allowing them to sustain their staggering numbers.
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Easy Logistics / int_d3e3e38a	comment	There's a minor aversion in Season 2 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. At the end of the first season, a massive attack of Entrapta's bots almost allowed The Horde to conquer Bright Moon, the main base of the heroes. Early in the second season, Catra has settled into using the bots to keep the princesses busy while she attempts to make conquests or solidify gains elsewhere. Just a few episodes later Catra is informed that making the bots in such large numbers has put enormous strain on the Horde's resources, and has resulted in the central armory being so low on metal that it can't make new armor for the Horde's soldiers or equipment, resulting in several battalions refusing to go out on missions while they're so undersupplied. In fact, the forges don't even have enough of the fuel that they need in order to keep making armor. However, after that episode these issues aren't really brought up again.
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Easy Logistics / int_d43b726a	comment	Averted in The Settlers games, where functional logistics is usually at least half the battle, and often far more so. The resources have to be physically carried by peasants walking along roads to get them to the buildings that process them; how good your road network is determines how fast you can equip soldiers, fire siege weapons, build ships, and so forth.
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Easy Logistics / int_d59d9e99	comment	Averted in R-Type Command, mostly. All units have limited fuel, and units other than capitol ships cannot be moved if they run out. Units also have limited ammunition, and keeping your forces topped up is a major challenge even early in the game.
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Easy Logistics / int_d5ac5ac9	comment	Averted in S.W.I.N.E., where fuel, ammunition and armor repairs are all expendable and finite supplies which are critical to the long-term operation of your army. Apart from the stores of each of your units, you can haul fairly large amounts of these supplies in trailers towed by your trucks, which you use to replenish your units, but even these can be depleted in intense or long battles, not to mention destroyed or captured by enemy forces.
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Easy Logistics / int_d5b84b32	comment	Averted in the real-time strategy Tribal Stage in Spore, where you have to keep your villagers well-fed or risk dying of starvation. This generally means that you'll be sending them out on short missions and then returning them to the village to refuel, rather than setting them to guard far-away areas, not that there's anything important out there that needs guarding (although it is possible to keep them alive on long journeys by ordering them to hunt or forage for food locally). The more occupation-based Civilization Stage plays this trope straight, which is good, because you'll want to set up long-term guards to protect your Spice mines.
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Easy Logistics / int_d5b8d407	comment	Squad simplifies logistics, but doesn't make it necessarily easy. The only two resources in the game are construciton (which can be used to build anything from respawn points call FOBS, to sandbags, mortars, or machine guns) and "ammo" (which can be used resupply bullets, mortar shells, grenades, and even bandages). The starting base of each faction has unlimited amounts of both. However, ammo and construction needs to be physically taken to the forward FOBs, as running back to base on foot to resupply usually takes far to much time to be practical. While players can respawn, they don't regain their lost ammo/other consumable items, creating a constant need for more ammo. This creates line of logistics, either in the form of helicopters or trucks, that are running from the forward bases back to the main base to pick up more supplies for the FOBs. These supply vehicles can be attacked and destroyed mid route, leaving the forward bases without construction to build defenses or ammo to fight with.
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Easy Logistics / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 has even easier logistics than before, as you can now pay a flat amount of resources to immediately upgrade all weapons and armor of a specific tier. Modular Weapons Attachments in use are even inherited by the operative's new weapons.
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Easy Logistics / int_d6f9f4fb	comment	Averted in Vortex. When South Africa and Cuba go to war, both sides face different logistical hamstrings. South Africa bleeds their own industry dry as because of the new regime's racial policies, they throw all their white men of South African ancestry into the meat grinder, leaving nobody to take care of the civil services at home. Cuba, meanwhile, is in a rush to take the South African capitol as quickly as possible, partially because they want to get there before the Americans and English arrive and more pressingly because Cuba, even with the Soviet Union giving them mild logistical support, knows it can't sustain a long, protracted war in Africa.
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Easy Logistics / int_d72b0239	comment	Rise of Nations: Averted to some degree. Any unit that stands within enemy turf receives attrition damage, but you can prevent that by keeping a supply convoy nearby. Best of all, light raiding cavalry get a bonus to destroying convoy units, Russians get a bonus bonus, and their Cossacks get a bonus bonus bonus. There's nothing like targeting your opponent's supply wagon and watching his army suffer and just....disappear. Though aircraft operate from airfields, the helicopters display this trope by hovering indefinitely. Once created, they never land.
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Easy Logistics / int_d779e1ad	comment	Averted in the Steel Panthers series. Every single weapon has limited ammunition and if you want to resupply anything larger than grenade launchers. Be prepared to take trucks or huge ammo dumps into battle. Air strikes are also very limited, more than a few is unlikely to be purchased in a normal size battle. Fuel is the only thing that you don't have to use carefully, because the battles can't be longer than around 2 hours ingame.
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Easy Logistics / int_da8d3132	comment	Act of War is notable for allowing you to capture enemy infantry for money. When you "kill" an enemy infantry unit, there is a chance that they are simply injured rather than dying, after which you can send one of your troops to capture it. Once captured though, what happens to him? He disappears from the map and is magically teleported to your field prison building.
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Easy Logistics / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld: A Lampshaded/Justified example. Because the titular universe explicitly runs on the rules of a Turn-Based Strategy game, as long as you have enough Schmuckers for upkeep, then food, weapons, armor, and anything else you require simply appear out of thin air. That being said, there are still some logistical concerns. Giving units rations reduces their upkeep, and hunting feral units for food does the same. The primary way to get Schmuckers is from cities, but cities have diminishing returns on the amount they produce, thus limiting the size of each Side.
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Easy Logistics / int_ddef1703	comment	Very slightly averted in Cossacks: European Wars, cannons do use trifling amounts of coal and iron, and units either eat food or require paying (gold).
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Easy Logistics / int_df64a221	comment	Averted in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. Supplies and vehicles can be ordered and are usually airdropped. If there is heavy enemy anti-air defense in the area, the planes and helicopters carrying your supplies can be shot down, which will usually destroy your supplies. Also averted in Mercenaries 2. You even need to supply your own fuel for air drops and missile strikes. You do not, however, have to pay any fuel for your helicopter guy to pick up any fuel canisters, though.
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Easy Logistics / int_e0f1b3dc	comment	Played straight in the Age of Empires series. Units might require food to build, but then they never require support — even if they're archers and catapults far away from anything resembling a resupply point. The only thing resembling an aversion of this trope are trade routes running through the map in II and III, where you could set up trade posts. However, in III, you could cut off (non-essential) shipments from your enemies' home cities.
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Easy Logistics / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, this is mostly played straight: While both the military and civilian infrastructure requires various resources for construction and upkeep, the actual logistics (transportation of resources) are not modeled. An empire may well produce its alloys at one end of the galaxy while consuming them in its shipyards on the other end. The economy itself is also fairly forgiving, as most resources can be bought or sold for energy on the galactic market, even by a Horde of Alien Locusts.
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Easy Logistics / int_e5de447c	comment	XCom: Averted. Ammunition must be bought, manufactured or captured in battle and then distributed to troops before battle. Vehicles cannot be repaired in the field, can run out of ammo and have limited operational range due to fuel constraints. Ammo and fuel for hybrid craft based on captured alien technology can be in fairly short supply since it is also used to manufacture advanced armour and other gadgets. And you have to balance your budget along with fighting aliens and researching desperately-needed better equipment. There are minor subversions when they must be made. Some craft — the Interceptor, for example — use "regular" fuel, do need to be refueled, but you never have to buy units of it nor do you run out of it (though both the non-alien vehicles are rented - you pay a monthly fee, and presumably that includes the fuel you use and spare parts; you still have to buy/manufacture the ammunition, though). Laser-based weapons do not run out of ammo; presumably your soldiers plug 'em into the base walls after a mission. Also, you have an infinite amount of manufacturing material when it doesn't include the exotic substances that must be scavenged from the aliens — it's all represented by money spent on production. XCOM: Enemy Unknown plays it straighter, as ammunition and fuel are managed off-screen for you, and all conventional human weapons technologies are readily available in large quantities. However, you do need to carefully manage and share out any captured or reproduced advanced/alien technology you do obtain, as their materials are limited. When building certain structures, however (such as the Elerium Reactor or the Firestorm Interceptor), you only need to provide an initial supply of alien fuel material*The research documents note that the alien power plants and elerium itself are extremely efficient, which implies that they don't need to be refueled. XCOM 2 has even easier logistics than before, as you can now pay a flat amount of resources to immediately upgrade all weapons and armor of a specific tier. Modular Weapons Attachments in use are even inherited by the operative's new weapons.
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Easy Logistics / int_e60954ea	comment	Zigzagged by the Armored Core franchise. The eponymous mechs have effectively unlimited fuel for movement, boosting, and energy weapons. The meter for energy that supplies these will decrease as you use them, and they'll stop functioning if the meter is depleted, but the meter quickly fills back up when it isn't used. Ammunition for projectile weapons, missiles, mines and the like are limited to max capacity for each mission, with refills only occurring in between missions back at base. Repairs to the Armored Core also don't happen in the field, and must be taken care of in between missions. Oh, and the funds for spent ammo and repairs come right out of your own pocket at the end of the mission, so if you screw up badly enough, a "successful" mission can still cost you more than you earn from completing it.
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Easy Logistics / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: One of the mayor factors in the Fall of the City of Tolkeen is that one huge division of Coalition soldiers (and their respective vehicles) performed a flanking attack through Xiticix-infested terrain, right where nobody in Tolkeen was expecting it because it seemed outright suicidal. The effectiveness of this tactic was only partially Handwaved by explaining that the leader of the attack was an expert in Xiticix, and how the heck he kept his army supplied with the necessary fuel, food and other vittles to endure a weeks-long march through said Hell on Earth was just not given.
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Easy Logistics / int_e66e059e	comment	Handwaved in Urban Assault, in the future humanity develops plasma formation technology. This allows units and buildings to form out of energy provided by your station. Somewhat averted in that your units have a limited energy supply that provides ammo for their attacks (but this recharges over time).
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Easy Logistics / int_e694aadb	comment	The Ciaphas Cain novel For The Emperor has General Zyvan point out that defending Gravalax would be difficult because its status as a remote border system meant that it would take a lot of resources to secure their supply lines - resources that could be much better used elsewhere.
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Easy Logistics / int_e804554e	comment	Mostly averted in Battle Isle series. In the second and third games you have to supply your troops with both ammunition and fuel, units can either refill themselves at various installations or logistical units can supply them on the field. Played straight by the first instalment though.
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Easy Logistics / int_e8930f52	comment	Blitzkrieg mostly averts this. All vehicles, guns, and infantrymen carry a finite amount of shells and bullets (although they often carry a large amount of the latter). Resupplying them requires the use of trucks, transports, and haulers, and destroying all of an enemy's resupply vehicles can cripple their offensive power because if they run out of ammunition they can't attack. Damage to any vehicles also requires the use of special mechanics trucks to repair them. If a tank has its treads knocked out with a grenade, it will sit there completely stationary until a repair truck sends out some mechanics to fix it. (Vehicles never run out of fuel, though.)
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Easy Logistics / int_e97e9ac4	comment	Averted in Harpoon- you have to wait for guns to reload and firing rates are realistic. Like every three minutes for an "Echo II" SSGN's "Shaddock" missiles. However, aircraft have unlimited ammo. So whilst a real life base or carrier might only have a few dozen of the high tech weapons, you can constantly launch, attack and relaunch plane squadrons using these high tech weapons.
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Easy Logistics / int_eaa8d31e	comment	Averted in The Hyborian Campaign. An entire chapter of Setting Up a Wargames Campaign, which has the rules for it, examines the maintenance of armies from pay of troops to production of weapons. Failure to supply troops would result in them losing effectiveness every turn.
Easy Logistics / int_eaa8d31e	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_eaa8d31e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hyborian Campaign (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_eaa8d31e
Easy Logistics / int_eca5afb5	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_eca5afb5	comment	Seriously averted both in Sunzi's The Art of War and Clausewitz's On War. Both relate very seriously on logistics and their importance. The Art of War even notes that one bushel of grain looted from the enemy is worth ten bushels from your own stores... because it takes nine of those bushels to feed the guys bringing the tenth up to your own lines.
Easy Logistics / int_eca5afb5	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_eca5afb5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_eca5afb5
Easy Logistics / int_edd0982	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_edd0982	comment	Partial aversion with regards to unit creation for the human factions in Seven Kingdoms 2: The Frythan Wars. To train soldiers you need available civilians to conscript. But, you also need to keep lots of civilians on hand to keep your economy going. If a war goes bad you can find yourself in the position of either hurting your economy to replace losses or trying to get by with a weak army. Played straight with everything else.
Easy Logistics / int_edd0982	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_edd0982	featureConfidence	1.0
Seven Kingdoms (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_edd0982
Easy Logistics / int_efd32306	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_efd32306	comment	Averted and played straight in Cyber Nations. Averted in that everything military-related (combat forces, improvements, and national wonders) has a daily upkeep cost, and not paying this cost can all but paralyze your army. Played straight in that once deployed, your armies can be used to attack any of your enemies (although since there is no real "game map", this might fall under Acceptable Breaks from Reality).
Easy Logistics / int_efd32306	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_efd32306	featureConfidence	1.0
Cyber Nations (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_efd32306
Easy Logistics / int_f236a7c7	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_f236a7c7	comment	Averted repeatedly in the Belisarius Series. Logistics play a major part in the Malwa invasion of Mesopotamia (defeated when Belisarius destroys their logistics center), the Roman invasion of India (getting gunpowder to his troops at the front is a major concern), and one of the final battles (won by preventing an army on the march from getting food). Sometimes it seems like Belisarius wins more fights through logistic superiority than through direct combat. (And most of the rest are won by him being a Guile Hero.)
Easy Logistics / int_f236a7c7	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_f236a7c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Belisarius Series	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_f236a7c7
Easy Logistics / int_f26c58d6	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_f26c58d6	comment	World in Conflict is a strong example of this. On strategic level in the single-player campaign, the player has to contend with a Soviet invasion fleet that snuck past US and Canadian naval and air assets along the Pacific coast and landed an overwhelming ground force in Seattle. Said force must later be defeated with ground forces retaking the city against poor odds, seeing as air and naval forces are NOT capable of severing their supply lines. Another part of the campaign entails defeating a Soviet force that has sailed past all of Greece and Italy to land in Southeast France without being anywhere close to linking up with their other forces. How they did it without the invasion fleet either being sunk or the supply lines severed by air and naval forces in the Western Mediterranean is not explained. And finally, there is an attack against the Soviet Northwest, where heavy armour liberally supported by strike aircraft are airdropped in behind enemy lines to rescue some pilots and then mount an assault upon a naval base. On the tactical, i.e. in-game level, all ground units are delivered onto the battlefield by helicopter or para-dropped from heavy transport aircraft. Evidently, these transport never have to contend with air defenses and are always loitering in the air near the battlefield, packed with ready-to-deploy vehicles (including main battle tanks too heavy to be air-dropped in real life), ready to bring in anything you have ordered from the reinforcement menu.
Easy Logistics / int_f26c58d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Easy Logistics / int_f26c58d6	featureConfidence	1.0
World in Conflict (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_f26c58d6
Easy Logistics / int_f5cf3f9a	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_f5cf3f9a	comment	In Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler is present in a discussion of the newly declared Civil War with plantation owners and other rich men. Everyone else in the room assumes that the Union forces are cowards and that the Southern "gentlemen" will always fight better than the northern "rabble." Rhett Butler points out that there isn't a single cannon factory in all of the South, while the North has factories, shipyards, railroads, and a fleet to blockade the South into starvation, while the South only has, "Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance." His points fall on deaf ears, and like in real life the South loses the war.
Easy Logistics / int_f5cf3f9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Easy Logistics / int_f5cf3f9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gone with the Wind	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_f5cf3f9a
Easy Logistics / int_f74b5f80	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Averted as the station is shown to be highly dependent on shipping traveling through the area for both supplies and money to purchase equipment and pay workers to run the place. This becomes even more urgent after they declare independence from Earth and are put under an embargo by the Earth Alliance. Indeed, even coffee is considered prohibitively expensive to ship to the station, and more than one officer stationed board B5 has violated regulations to smuggle coffee plants aboard and have them planted in the hydroponics gardens that are normally reserved for producing foodstuffs and oxygen.
Easy Logistics / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_f74b5f80
Easy Logistics / int_fb0b20f2	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_fb0b20f2	comment	Averted to a minor degree in Supreme Commander. Ground and naval units have unlimited ammunition and fuel, how they receive these supplies never being explained, but while aircraft still have infinite ammunition their primary fuel is finite. An aircraft which exhausts its fuel can still fly, but receives a massive speed penalty, being reduced to around 10% of its maximum speed. Its fuel regenerates extremely slowly when landed, though resupply structures will repair aircraft and refuel them at greater speed. These resupply structures can be built anywhere, however, and need no connection to the main base or a firebase in order to function at maximum efficiency.
Easy Logistics / int_fb0b20f2	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_fb0b20f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Supreme Commander (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_fb0b20f2
Easy Logistics / int_fd57d002	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_fd57d002	comment	Travels Through Azeroth and Outland spends some time describing just how all these far-flung settlements (often in very inhospitable environments) get the supplies that they need.
Easy Logistics / int_fd57d002	featureApplicability	1.0
Easy Logistics / int_fd57d002	featureConfidence	1.0
Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_fd57d002
Easy Logistics / int_ff5835e3	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_ff5835e3	comment	Zig-zagged in Fractured (SovereignGFC) and its sequel, Origins. When the Trans-Galactic Republic first arrives at the Citadel, the trope seems to be in play (as it tends to be in Star Wars), but as battles wear on the newcomers are shown to run short on hypermatter fuel, limiting their ability to participate in combat. This problem is the reason for merging hyperdrives with Element Zero. In the sequel, specific types of Unobtanium that power Trans-Galactic Republic ships are noted to be in short supply, limiting the ability of anybody to reproduce said ships (and their powerful weapons). This gets partially sorted, but the replacements are noted to be weaker due to lack of the "real" Phlebotinum used at home.
Easy Logistics / int_ff5835e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Easy Logistics / int_ff5835e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fractured (SovereignGFC) (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_ff5835e3
Easy Logistics / int_ffc4c2fe	type	Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics / int_ffc4c2fe	comment	Averted in Order in Chaos: supplying the fleets with fuel, spare parts, new fighters and ships and even personnel is a primary concern for both sides, and one of the main Centauri advantages against their enemies is that their fleets not only need less supplies (as the Orieni make use of waves of ramming drones, devastating but a logistical nightmare), but they have enough factories and cargo ships to constantly resupply the fleets fighting on the Orieni front and still support a force strong enough to crush the Drazi on the other side of the Republic, with Orieni strategy being centered around the need to change this situation. The fact Centauri space is far richer in Quantium-40, translating in their ships having a higher percentage of jump drives (thus making them less reliant on the jump gates) and of higher quality to boot, made things even worse for the Orieni.
Easy Logistics / int_ffc4c2fe	featureApplicability	-1.0
Easy Logistics / int_ffc4c2fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Order in Chaos / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_ffc4c2fe

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Easy Logistics	processingCategory2	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Angel Beats! / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Animatrix / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
∀ Gundam / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (Blog) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
First Knife (Comic Book) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ãœber (Comic Book) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Aeon Natum Engel / Fan Fic / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Embers / Fan Fic / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fractured / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Here We Go Again! (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
/SovereignGFC/Origins / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Travels Through Azeroth and Outland / Fan Fic / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Cold Calculus (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Game for the Fool (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Spartan in Westeros (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ambition of the Red Princess (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Between Three Rogues (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Birds of a Feather (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Changeling Space Program & The Maretian (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Code Geass Megiddo (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Conquest in the Name of Advancement! (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Davion & Davion (Deceased) (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Dungeon Hulk (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Embers (Vathara) (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fractured (SovereignGFC) (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe! (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Kimi No Na Iowa (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Origins (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sudden Contact (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Tarkin's Fist (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Desert Storm (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Lunar Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Swarm of War (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Warhammer 40000 Trouble (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
World War Etheria (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
A Bridge Too Far / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Battle of the Bulge / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Kingdom of Heaven / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Master and Commander / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Nicholas and Alexandra / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Reign of Fire / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Bridge at Remagen / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Forgotten Battle / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Last Chase / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Lord of the Rings / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Next Generation -Patlabor- / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Threads / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
300 / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Patlabor (Franchise) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (Franchise) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Anabasis / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Artillerymen / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Belisarius Series / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Castle Federation / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Chaos Timeline / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ciaphas Cain / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life? / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Emberverse / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ender's Game / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Factory of the Gods / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Hand of Thrawn / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Hell's Gate / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Left Behind / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Oathbringer / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Promise of Blood / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Red Storm Rising / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Release That Witch / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Republic Commando Series / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Safehold / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Second Apocalypse / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
1632 / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Space Marine Battles / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sword of Truth / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Tales of the Otori / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Temeraire / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Big One / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Dinosaur Lords / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Draka / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Empire's Corps / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Guns of the South / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Hand of Thrawn / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Lost Fleet / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Salvation War / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Shelter / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Stormlight Archive / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Tomorrow Series / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Troy Saga / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Turner Diaries / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Tree of Aeons / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Voyages Of The Flying Dragon	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Warbreaker / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Warhammer: Time of Legends / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Earth2150	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
VictoryAtSea	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Warzone2100	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Arpeggio of Blue Steel (Manga) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Drifters (Manga) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Governments The Game (Roleplay) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Lost Primarch Quest (Roleplay) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Victoria Falls (Roleplay) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
BBC Historical Farm Series / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Earth 2 / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Revolution / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Last Kingdom / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Thunderbirds / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Victory at Sea / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Brikwars (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Lancer (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Risk (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Rogue Trader (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The One Ring (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Victory in the Pacific (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Xenos Rampant (Tabletop Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
ARMA (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ace Combat Infinity (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Aerobiz (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Age of Empires (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Age of Empires III (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Age of Wonders (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Age of Wonders 3 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Airforce Delta (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
American Conquest (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Anno 1800 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Anomaly: Warzone Earth (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Armored Core: Last Raven (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Azur Lane (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Battle Isle (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
BattleTech (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
BattleTech (2018) (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Battlefield 2042 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Battlefield 4 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
BrÃ¼tal Legend (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Call of Duty (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Celestus (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Cepheus Protocol (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Civilization (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Civilization: Beyond Earth (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Close Combat (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Colonization (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Combat Mission (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Command & Conquer: Generals (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Company of Heroes (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Conan Exiles (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Conquest: Frontier Wars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Cosmoteer (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Cossacks: European Wars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Creeper World (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
DEFCON (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Distant Worlds (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Dominions (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Dune: Spice Wars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Edain (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Elite (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Empire of Sin (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
EndWar (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Europa Universalis (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Expeditions: Rome (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Factorio (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fantasy General (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Far Cry 2 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Feda: The Emblem of Justice (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fire & Maneuver (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Flashpoint Campaigns (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Food Fantasy (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Foxhole (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Freeciv (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Front Mission (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Gears Tactics (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Genewars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Girls' Frontline (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Gratuitous Space Battles (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Graviteam Tactics (Video Game)	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Hardwar (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Hell Let Loose (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Herzog Zwei (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Homefront (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
IL-2 Sturmovik (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Imperator: Rome (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Iron Brigade (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Killing Time (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Light & Darkness: Heroes of Calradia (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Lords of the Realm 2 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Lords Of The Realm 3 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Lost Frontier (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Machines: Wired For War (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Majesty (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Marathon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Master of Orion (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Metal Max (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Mindustry (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Monday Night Combat (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Mount & Blade (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Nectaris (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Nether Earth (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
New Horizons (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Northgard (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Original War (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Panzer General (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Parkitect (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Patapon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Phoenix Point (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Plague Inc. (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Project Reality (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
R-Type (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Rebel Inc. (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Resident Evil 2 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
RimWorld (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Rise of Nations (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Koei) (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sabres of Infinity (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Saga: Rage of Vikings (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Satisfactory (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Shadowrun (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Shattered Union (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Shin Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Solid & Shade (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Space Crew (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Spacebourne (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Spore (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Squad (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Star Ruler 2 (Video Game)	seeAlso	Easy Logistics
Star Traders: Frontiers (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Stars! (1995) (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Starsector (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Steambirds (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Steel Battalion (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Steel Panthers (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Stonkers (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Strike Series (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Stronghold (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Supreme Commander (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sword of Damocles (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Tavern Master (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Terminator Dark Fate - Defiance (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Battle for Middle-earth (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Elder Scrolls Online (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Planet Crafter (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Reckoning (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Riftbreaker (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Settlers (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Thrones of Britannia: A Total War Saga (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total War: Attila (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total War: Warhammer II (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Transport Tycoon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Unicorn Overlord (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Vigor (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
War for the West (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
War of Rights (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Wargame: AirLand Battle (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Wargame: Red Dragon (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Warzone 2100 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
World in Conflict (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
XCOM: Long War (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
X-COM (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
X-COM: Interceptor (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Zero K (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Achron (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Against the Storm / Videogame / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Call Of War / Videogame / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Elite: Dangerous / Videogame / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Subnautica (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Koibu (Web Video) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
SWAT Kats / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls (Fanfic) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Age of Mythology (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
H.A.W.X. (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Space Empires (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Star Ruler (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics

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