Should i build more rails and trains?

[WaterDrinker]

yes or no

[Lil B_999]

Originally posted by IdrinkWater:

yes or no

I'm new to this game, just bought it today.

[Bored Peon]

Trains move supplies and the level of rails determines how much supply can pass through.

Enemy planes will attack trains and rails. This destroys trains which a shortage of trains cuts supply off. Damaged rails have the amount of supply that can pass through reduced.

Rails are also used when you use the strategic movement of an army which greatly speeds up a unit's movement relocating to another front.

Excess trains can be sold on the market since the AI does not post them to sell on the market, if you have the DLC for the market.

[mk11]

Usually both but depends on country and situation.

[IPWIW]

i like trains

[fakemon64]

yes

optimizing your rail network will give you a nice logistical advantage against the ai. I'm not sure if they build/upgrades their rails much at all.

I also recommend helping your ai puppets build up their network and make sure to connect yours with newly conquered lands/networks.

imo, wars in places like africa, south america, and some parts of asia are basically an automatic win for whoever has the better railway network and supply situation. no fancy weapons needed

[Labargoth]

Yes train simulator time

[Maya-Neko]

yes and yes. If you ignore it, then you're pretty much begging for supply problems. You might get away with not building that much against weaker countries, where you can fight with less or even smaller divisions, but against the bigger nations it is mostly about who has the better supply situation.

[55zanaris99]

my brain tends to shut off when playing this game and as a result I rarely if ever invest into logistics, but to answer your question not really its your choice if you want to fight a sovlrending attrition war or blitz through the braindead AI

[WaterDrinker]

like i build a ♥♥♥♥ ton of rails and trains as greece in ww2, (u can see it in my art work hoi4)
is that good?

[JDouglasBarson]

I always build them as Japan and Turkey. Its actually more important than building factories for some nations. The lack of supplies can have 40 percent stat reduction which can lead to any attack doing no damage.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by fakemon64:

yes

optimizing your rail network will give you a nice logistical advantage against the ai. I'm not sure if they build/upgrades their rails much at all.

I also recommend helping your ai puppets build up their network and make sure to connect yours with newly conquered lands/networks.

imo, wars in places like africa, south america, and some parts of asia are basically an automatic win for whoever has the better railway network and supply situation. no fancy weapons needed

I think they mildly boosted the AI for logistical stuff recently (still terrible tho), but for a long while the AI would never build new supply or rail & would only get more from focus stuff.
It's a reoccuring issue in a lot of PDX DLC where the game AI simply doesn't know how to function past Vanilla/Core.

[Colonel Kubaguette]

I dont know if you have DLCs or not but in my case I watched this video which helped me a lot. It is a 10 min long video explaining the supply system and especialy adressing trains and rails.

There is in general so much to learn, I played maybe for now 60 hours and Im still a total newbie watching tutorials over and over.