Supply Bases & Supply Lines
This page describes the concept behind supply bases and the experimental proposal of supply trucks to represent supply lines
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This page describes the concept behind supply bases and the experimental proposal of supply trucks to represent supply lines
Last updated
At this point you might be thinking "what's the point of supply bases if map control is so much more important and why are they called "supply bases" in the first place" and that'd be a legitimate question.
Supply Bases, while they do not make the enemy team lose that much tickets (unless you control all of them), are actually very important because of their key difference with the regular strategic points in Domination and Conquest modes:
Supply Bases are able to resupply everything, shells, bullets, crew members, fire extinguishers, smoke grenades...
This is what i meant when i said reduce the "a tank eventually has to die" phenomen at the beginning, not making sure to destroy a hostile vehicle gives them the chance to repair and fully resupply and while it may be less of an issue on the frontlines, it becomes more troublesome when attacking a supply base
As you may have noticed on the incoming ammunition sharing example up above, a truck instead of a tank is used as example, this is supposed to be a supply truck.
Supply trucks , due to their relatively high impact they can have on the battlefield, are limited to players with no vehicles left and not enough spawn points to spawn in vehicles of their secondary line-up
They are entirely unarmed vehicles meant for support only, with relatively high speed but extremely low survivability.
However, while they may seem pointless, they make supply bases even more impactful:
They can carry 5 universal heavy-weight shells, 10 universal medium-weight shells and 15 universal light-weight shells, as well as 500 universal machine-guns bullets
"universal" means they can be of any type because it would be painful to list all the possible shells, both here and on the game interface and thus can be shared with any friendly vehicles
They can also carry 5 crew members, 10 smoke grenades and 5 fire extinguishers
All of these can be independently shared with any vehicles that uses them (and already used some). They are basically a moving supply base that can replenish itself by going back to the friendly supply bases
They can help repairing, but while they contribute more to repairs than medium tanks, heavy tanks and such, they contribute less than light tanks
Though, they do not generate any spawn points, they only give more score and rewards
as you help friendly vehicles, and is also limited to 2 (maybe 1?) uses.
