Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-39133133-20200508110659/@comment-35614398-20200509080419

FloweyFan wrote: Bosnia Mapper wrote: FloweyFan wrote: Hey Britain how long can one food shipment last in your massive sprawl of trenches, gun positions and ditches? Just one shipment? Are you sure about that? Yeah, I wanna know how long it will last and how many arrive per month/year so I can calculate how long I need to maintain a blockade or siege. Come on, you're asking me to put more thought into this than probably anyone has to put into their turns.

I mean I guess the best approximation of this would be the Siege of Malta in WWII. During this there were 35 major convoy operations in two years, so like three convoys a month (?). To quote the wikipedia article '''There were long periods when no convoy runs were even attempted and only a trickle of supplies reached Malta by submarine or fast warship'. ''That implies its realistic that Avalon could survive for a while at least by itself, though that certainty gets a bit iffy if a ground offensive takes place at the same time.

I'd hazard Avalon could last perhaps a turn and a bit before collapsing. Which really doesn't give me much of a window to do something, but I think I could. Malta convoys did still get through at times, though admittedly it usually ended in them being bombed in the harbour.