Supply Convoys

[Anaxogoras]

Does shooting supply convoys accomplish anything?

There was a vbase with all 3 hangars down, I destroyed its entire supply convoy, twice (I'm a dweeb), and they popped like normal.  So far as I can tell, the biggest impact "supply convoys" have on the game is when they crash into your gv at 50mph.

No point in shooting them, no point in defending them, kind of like strats.

Besides actually having an effect on hangar rebuild times, I would love it if the trucks would scatter and pull off the road when you dive down to shoot them.

[A8TOOL]

Supply convoy's do absolutely nothing for hangers or town buildings.

The amount of time it takes (15 for hangers and 45 min for town) is unchanged by supply drops.

You can shorten the supply time for a bases ammo,fuel, Dar and barracks ...(uncertain about ack) by bringing in supplies. Shooting them down as they come in stops the supply clock because they never made it into base. That time frame will still depend on whether you kill them all or not. If some of them make it in, rebuild time is shortened just slightly.

You can effectively stop the trucks from resupplying any base if you wanted to by killing them all every ...10 min??.

[LYNX]

From the Top Secret help file.

Trains, convoys, and barges are built into the terrain.  Each train, convoy, or barge has a source point and a destination point, and each can be damaged or destroyed while traveling from point to point.  When a train, convoy, or barge is destroyed, they will automatically respawn every ten minutes.
Each time a train, convoy or barge spawns, it first checks to see if there has been damage to the supplier (cities supply factories and factories supply fields).  The amount of supplies carried to the destination depends on the amount of damage to the supplier.  If the supplier has been damaged by 50%, only one out of every six train cars or convoy trucks will carry supplies.

The destination point is where the train, convoy, or barge attempts to resupply.  The destination can be either a single field, or a number of objects within a defined radius.  If a destination field is captured while a train, convoy, or barge is enroute, the train, convoy, or barge continues to the destination, and resupplies from the factories of the capturing country. 

Once a train, convoy, or barge has successfully reached it's destination, a new supply convoy spawns. 

Supply drops     
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The C-47, LVT-2, and M-3 have the capability to drop supplies on a field to repair the field or shorten the downtime.  These object supplies will repair all resupplyable objects in a one mile radius from the point where the supplies land.  The supplies are selected as a loadout option in the hangar, and .25 perk points are awarded to the player who dropped the supplies for every object that's affected by the resupply.   
A vehicle supply type is also available to repair and supply vehicles with ordnance.  When these supplies are dropped, any friendly vehicle within a half mile radius receives a Load Supplies button on their screen.  Clicking this button will use the supplies to both repair and rearm their vehicle.  If the supplies are unused, they vanish after 15 minutes.  Vehicle supplies will not reload troops or the vehicle and object supplies. 

Winning the War     

[Noir]

the secret help is not helping AT ALL.

Its even kindof confusing...are they trying to make us believe there is a strat system in AH ? good try

[Anaxogoras]

Yeah, I even looked for that information on the HTC website, but the information is poorly organized there.  If you know nothing it works fine.  If you don't know one thing, forget it!