New Guy Questions

[Borys]

Ahoj!
A double 1M line is enormous overkill. You need - let us say - 5 kg per man/animal - 2 litres water, 1 kg feed, 2 kg whatnots. 50,000 men and 10,000 animals. That's c. 300,000 kgs, or 300 tonnes. That's 60 cars at 5 tonnes each runing on 2" gauge. Two trains per day and you are good.

P3D will correct and/or gently ridicule me if I messed up those calculations :)

Borys

[P3D]

By my calculations a light 3' line can supply 3-4 corps. A double 1m line has practically unlimited supply capacity.
About the numbers: rather 10 kg per man (desert, water to boil pasta etc.), 50 kg per camel/mule, 100kg for a horse. That 50,000 strong corps would require 1000t supplies.  20 wagons, 100t capacity each (using Borys' low-end estimate of 5t), one train every hour could supply 2 corps and have some spare margin, or one corps without any hassle. This is for a 2' line, with a lot of rolling stock and limited track doubling for passing trains.
Even a single 4' line would be able to supply any reasonable attacking force (like up to 10 infantry corps).

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Thanks, P3D.
Borys

[ctwaterman]

Thanks-

Ok a single 1 Meter lign 120 KM long should cover the Job Nicely for well into the future and have the advantage being the standard guage I intend to use for all of Italian North Africa.... :) While I dont think I will ever need to supply more than 2-3 Corp you never know.... ::)

[ctwaterman]

Well just finished HTML encoding a format so I will never have to do it again while posting HY reports.

But it just occured to me can I create a unit most likely a Garrios Corp where 1/3 is active and the other 2/3 are reservest who will be called up to man the fortress in the event of a war.   ??????

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Sorry, no can do.
You can have a corps split between various locations.
You can have a corps which is half light infantry, half cavalry.
But you can't have a corps split between two accounting categories.
The clerks would swarm your desk, slit their wrists and bleed all over you.

Borys

[ctwaterman]

*sighs*  My heart bleeds for the Accounting Clerks.... as a matter of fact them slitting their own wrists saves me a bullet. ;D

Was thinking about the Old US Square Division I think it was where one part of the Unit of Regular Army and the rest of the Division was made up of State National Guard Units......

Oh well another brilliant Idea shot down by Bureaucrats.... *eyes the accountants menacingly*

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Actually, in peacetime an Active Corps is at about 25/30% strength, the rest being called up upon mobilisation.

I had a similar problem in Parana - I deemed the population to be too small and/or disinterested to support a Reserve Corps. So I raised an Active Corps there - which represents the 100% strength Regulars (Wartime upkeep) mixed with 1% strength Militia.

Borys

[ctwaterman]

Might have to Build Several Garrison Units and some Frontier Fortress, the Garrison Units will all be Reserve Units with 1 of my Cohorts from another Unit assigned to that area as well on active status...... *smiles at the accountants* see we only had to work around the problem.... ::)

[Borys]

Ahoj!
I don't see why not.
Borys