Supply Lines
The routes that feed the war.
Supply lines are the routes that carry materials and equipment from backline production to the front. Protecting your own and cutting the enemy's is one of the most decisive things players do.
What this page teaches
- What supply lines are
- Why cutting them is decisive
- How to protect your own
- Reading supply lines on the map
What supply lines are
A supply line is the chain of roads, rail, and sea routes that moves supply from where it is produced to the bases that consume it.
Every active front sits at the end of one or more supply lines.
Why cutting them is decisive
A front cut off from supply collapses even if its defenders are skilled — they simply run out of shirts, ammo, and equipment. Cutting an enemy supply line can win a region without assaulting it.
Supply denial is one of the most powerful strategies in the game.
Protecting your own
- Watch the regions and routes your supply passes through
- Respond quickly to raids and partisans on your lines
- Keep alternate routes in mind if a line is threatened
- Treat a quiet supply route as something to guard, not ignore
Reading supply lines
On the map, trace how supply must travel from backline production to each front. The chokepoints — borders, key regions, single routes — are where the war is most vulnerable.
Both attacking and defending those chokepoints is high-value work.
When to focus on supply lines
Focus on supply lines when a front is stable and the war is grinding — that is when logistics, not firefights, decides the outcome. Partisan and recon players especially should think in supply lines.
Find the chokepoint and you find the decisive ground.
Related systems
This ties together the Maps section with Recon and Partisans, Trains, and the Logistics section.
Focusing only on the firefight at the front while the supply line behind it goes unwatched and gets cut.
Trace your faction's supply lines on the map and find the chokepoints. That is where both attack and defence pay off most.