Quote Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
Please don't swear at me. Upkeep and Supply are not the same thing. One is a fixed cost in the game that you always have to pay no matter what. This is meant to restrict you from spamming unlimited armies by forcing you to pay out a cost that is meant to simulate wages, food, drink etc etc. And you always have to pay it, even if your army is trapped on the other side of the world, you still pay their upkeep.

Whereas in reality you would have to send their pay, food, drink, weapons, ammo, etc etc by sea and land to them. Where they would be subject to piracy, theft, breakage, spoilage, interception, blockades etc etc. The further an army is from its bases, the harder and more expensive it is to supply. And when an army is lacking in supplies it loses men to disease, death, desertion etc. Without supplies it cannot manuevre or fight as effectively. Maintaining your supply chain was of critical importance in all the time periods covered in the TW series.

Its like the old truism about "amateurs talk tactics, proffesionals talk logistics". Alexander the Great understood this. Tinned food came about after Napoleon sponsored a competition for someone to design non-perishable food for him to take on campaign. If supply (as opposed to upkeep) was not a factor in warfare, Napoleon could have marched all the way across Russia and Patton & Montgomery could have driven all the way to Berlin in August 1944.
Yes they are, in TW. Supply doesn't enter into it. Your example is from WW2. Where ammo, weapons, food, water, parts, feul, and replacements had to shipped from home to the units in the field. Napoleon had to ship ammo/powder, weapons, some food, and replacements to his armies in the field. All Alexander had to ship was replacements to and orders from himself in the feild. Your supply idea has no place in TW until they go beyond the 17th century. When armies stopped foraging for everything they needed on campagin. Or make and asian TW. The Chinese armies carried tofu and rice rations with them on campagin.