Easy Logistics - TV Tropes. There are countless examples of armies being fatally weakened or even dissolving completely due to insufficient supplies.

In some types of combat, such as air- to- air, ammo and fuel supplies can even set an absolute hard limit on how long an engagement can go on; combat airplanes, for instance, may well expend all their munitions in a single pass. Therefore securing supply lines is a vital part of any military operation.

In games with a military theme, save the most serious wargames and grand strategy games, this aspect is usually dealt with in the background without the player having to worry unduly about it. Sometimes, however, this aspect is portrayed in an egregiously unrealistic fashion, with the forces depicted being mostly or entirely liberated from logistical constraints. This is for both stylistic and balance reasons: it would be overpowered to have an infinite bombing run, and the aircraft carriers have to do something. These little buggers can fix a heavy tank from near disintegrated state in a matter of seconds with any needed spare parts being pulled out of hammerspace (otherwise the unit would be carrying a entire heavy tank in spare parts around) without making the repair crew actually get out, or even immobilizing the repaired unit for a short time. The latter part includes repairing an attack helicopter hovering over the repair unit. These guys are hardcore. Shoot them first.

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However, at least some of listed aversions prove that . Professionals study logistics. Contrast Wizard Needs Food Badly and Resources Management Gameplay. A subtrope is Automaton Horses, which addresses the ease of keeping horses fed, watered and healthy in fiction. Another major component of this trope is a Global Currency, because it eliminates the need to calculate exchange rates and manage additional kinds of resources based off that. This is also one of the reasons that Eren is so important.

If he can figure out how to patch the hole using his titan- shifting ability, like how the Walls were built in the first place, they could retake Wall Maria in days. The problem is, the Protoculture, fearing their slave soldiers would one day rebel, willingly weakened the Zentraedi by denying them the technical know- how necessary to maintain and repair their ships or reverse- engineer existing designs. As the Zentraedi rebelled and wiped out the Protoculture 5. Torrent Jonathan And Charlotte Perhaps Love Jonathan. Zentraedi ships degrade into progressively worse conditions as they.

Additionally, at least the fleet appearing in Super Dimension Fortress Macross is shown to have only a limited supply of Glaug officer pods due to their Satellite for that one getting destroyed too. The New UN Spacy stealing any Factory Satellite they stumble upon (including those of the Zentraedi fleet they defeated in the original series) isn't helping the situation of independent Zentraedi fleets either, though those who have allied with humanity have benefited from the latter's technical know- how. This gets solved when a mining consortium with interests in the Brisingr Cluster hire them to retake it, but even then they have to wait until the supplies show up.

A major part of the story is bringing the plans for the first human- producible anti- Fog weapon from the nation that designed it to a nation with the industrial capacity to produce enough of them that they can equip a fleet with them. A full game takes 1. The entire North African theatre, for three years, with individual pilots, unit ammunition counts and water supplies, and the like being tracked to minute detail. It's so detailed that Italian units use more water than any other nation, because they cook pasta.

Country in eastern Europe. About this page. APA citation. Kolodziejczyk, E. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. The Easy Logistics trope as used in popular culture. If the day-long battle and hundreds of men that fought it stupefy you, figuring out the much greater.

Ballistic weapons and missile launchers require literally tons of ammunition, and supplies play a major part in any game that extends beyond individual battles. The Clans resorted to Energy Weapon use because their logistics train (designed only for the Clans Duel to the Death style combat) couldn't cope with the Inner Sphere's grueling wars of attrition, and the Inner Sphere used Energy Weapons for operation behind enemy lines, specifically to hunt down Clan supplies. When the opposing generals discuss the battle after the fact, it is pointed out that the Precentor Martial of Comstar won the battle almost entirely because he understood logistics in a way the Clans did not. The very few Clan forces that brought enough supplies tended to win their individual contests. GDI forces ran low on supplies after the battle to take Port Krin.

Also, one of the key meta- arguments in having GDI go for a standardized equipment loadout is to ease supply lines. Things get much worse with Earth Alliance's entry in the war and their concentrated effort to demolish the Dilgar merchant fleet, and by the time of the battle of Balos (the last chance for the Dilgar to stop Earth. Force and the League before they can reach the Dilgar homeworld) the Dilgar fleet assembled there has no fuel to move somewhere else. On the other hand, the main trouble for Earth. Force is the need to bring their supplies to the front all the way from Earth Alliance space, and while they're better at defending them they get in trouble during the Balos campaign when the Dilgar manage to destroy the main stockpile near the front. Later turned back against Earth Alliance when Branmer manage to keep most of Earth's main force from chasing his fleet attacking Earth itself when he destroys their fuel stockpiles after tricking them into using most of their onboard fuel in a running battle.

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When the Trans- Galactic Republic first arrives at the Citadel, the trope seems to be in play (as it tends to be in Star Wars), but as battles wear on the newcomers are shown to run short on hypermatter fuel, limiting their ability to participate in combat. This problem is the reason for merging hyperdrives with Element Zero.

In the sequel, specific types of Unobtanium that power Trans- Galactic Republic ships are noted to be in short supply, limiting the ability of anybody to reproduce said ships (and their powerful weapons). This gets partially sorted, but the replacements are noted to be weaker due to lack of the . There are a lot of issues with feeding an army a million strong, and the Ork invasion runs into significant problems once they find out their spores don. After the Fire Nation's catastrophic defeat at Lake Myojin, Gan chides Nikon for not realizing that an army is made up not only of men, but also the resources they need to wage war, which includes the cost of their equipment and ability to replace it should it ever be lost in battle. In a later chapter, Chieng points out that should Mequon ever be lost, the Fire Nation's ability to supply its oversea armies would be lost. The Federation vehicles start to run out of ammunition in Iowa, and several vehicles break down at various points in the journey and have to be abandoned. By the time they reach Minneapolis supplies of ammunition are being airlifted to them from Winnipeg, without which they would have been useless during the Battle of Saint Paul.

Zeon units by then are suffering a similar issue, as their own supply lines have been cut; one of the reasons they withdraw from Saint Paul is a belief they don't have enough ammunition left to fight a pitched battle. Basic fuel and food are rarely concerns, but the reason for this is actually valid: North America is populated enough that it's not hard to find gasoline or a convenience store when regular supply isn't available.

To give a few examples. Just after the Shinjuku incident, Ohgi's resistance cell runs low on supplies for everything to the point where they're unable to handle any major operations for a good while. Also, while Kallen loses her Glasgow and manages to steal a Pureblood's Sutherland, that actually makes things more difficult for them as they're unable to find an energy filler for it without drawing attention to themselves.