Repaired trackBombed track (repair to use)Front line🌉 bridge: red = blown, white = working · ⚑ Railhead · ■ big station · bar = condition · ? reported German build-up · hover a station for its stocks
August 1944. The Allies have broken out of Normandy. You run supply for three armies racing for Germany. The generals fight; you decide what reaches them. Take Paris, Antwerp, Aachen and Metz before the deadline. The real armies ran out of fuel in September: can you do better?
Difficulty
⚓ Everything comes ashore: the beaches and Mulberry, then ports. Channel storms cut the beaches to a quarter for a few days, and from September the weather wears them down. Ports arrive wrecked: put port companies on them (⚓ Ports panel) to clear them. Le Havre feeds the line at Rouen, Antwerp right at the front, but Antwerp is useless until the Scheldt is cleared: port companies, plus the British & Canadians holding at Antwerp with ammo.
🌉 Blown bridges: the Germans blow the river bridges as they retreat. The railhead stops at a blown bridge until your engineers rebuild it, which takes many battalion-days. Move fast and you may take one intact.
🚂 Trains run only on repaired track. Allied bombers wrecked the French railways before D-Day, so your trains stop where the repaired track ends: the railhead. That can be past the last station.
🔧 Trucks wear out. Each army's columns lose condition as they drive, and worn trucks carry less. Columns you take off an army rest and recover; put rested ones back on. The 🔴 Red Ball button gives one army one-way roads: its trucks go much further but wear faster, and the other armies' trucks carry less.
⛽ Fuel is the crisis. The ports land plenty of ammunition but only so much petrol. If the armies' mixes ask for more fuel than came ashore, each gets a share and the rest of the train space carries ammo. The count above the Train mix shows it.
🚚 Trucks carry supplies from the railhead to the front. The further the front gets ahead, the less they carry, and they burn fuel doing it.
🛠️ Engineers repair track and stations: 🛤️ Track pushes the railhead on, Station 🚉 fixes stations first. The Germans wreck stations as they retreat: the faster you take them, the less damage.
✈️ Fighter-bombers slow German resistance. Put them where air recon reports a build-up to weaken the counterattack. They burn fuel from that sector's depot.
🪖 New divisions land at the beaches. Send them forward by train: infantry is cheap, armour moves fast but drinks fuel, artillery beats counterattacks but eats ammo. Every unit you add needs feeding.
⛽ / 💥 Pick each sector's fuel and ammo mix. The button underlined in green matches what it uses.
⏸️ Hold when supply can't keep up: a front on a trickle barely moves and wastes what arrives. A holding sector digs in (much stronger defence), its engineers repair and lay track faster, its guns wear the Germans down, and the trucks stock it up to 5 days. Every day in hand makes the next push faster, so a pause followed by a big push beats crawling.
🛡️ German counterattacks hit the weakest sector. Keep ammo at the front, or they break through. Near the German border resistance stiffens every day.
💥 The Luftwaffe sometimes hits the fullest depot. Don't pile everything in one place.
Each sector row shows its supply line and a line of advice. The numbers above the rows are what's still free to assign. Hover a station for its stocks and traffic.
Open this again any time: 📖 How to play at the top, the ? next to End day, or press H.