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** Resupplying can be done by having a unit start a turn on the appropriate facility tile, or with a single APC that is capable of resupplying any unit, including naval vessels and aircraft. This happens instantly to every ally adjacent to the APC, which happens automatically at the start of your turn and can be done a second time manually each turn (if the APC isn't unloading infantry instead). [=APCs=] never run out of supplies to give to other units, but have their own fuel supply they cannot replenish. ''Two'' [=APCs=] together can restore each other indefinitely.
** The aforementioned facilities also do repair, though this cost money (proportional to the unit's value and health restore) and is done more slowly (one fifth of their health per turn). It's understandable that Infantry can obtain more men and from cities but one really has to wonder where these remote cities in the middle of nowhere are getting their heavy tank parts.

** The Join mechanic lets you combine a pair of damaged units into a new one with the same total HP, ammunition, and fuel. This works whether [[ShowsDamage the visuals for the unit taking damage]] show soldiers/vehicles being destroyed (which means should have less fuel/ammo) or a single vehicle breaking down (which means combining them in the field makes little sense). Most bizarrely, HP in excess of the maximum 10 will instantly turn into funds proportional to the unit's cost, in a game where you otherwise ''can't'' refund units.
** Two CO's, Jess ([=AW2=] and AW:DS) and Greyfield (Days of Ruin), [[BoringButPractical instantly resupply all units]] when they use their [[LimitBreak CO Powers]].

* ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]'':
** The games require you to keep your units supplied with fuel and ammunition. However, resupplying can be done with a single [=APC=] that is capable of resupplying any unit, including naval vessels and aircraft. Even on the same turn. [=APCs=] also never run out of supplies themselves, except their own fuel supply, and even that can be alleviated by merely having ''two'' [=APCs=], which can restore each other indefinitely.
** Same goes for repairs. Ground units regain 2 HP per turn they rest on an allied property.It's understandable that Infantry can obtain more men and from cities but one really has to wonder where these remote cities in the middle of nowhere are getting their heavy tank parts. You do have to pay to heal the units, however.
** Two CO's even have this as part of their [[LimitBreak CO Powers]]. Jess ([=AW2=] and AW:DS) and Greyfield (Days of Ruin) [[BoringButPractical instantly resupply all units.]]
** However, all machine guns have [[EmergencyWeapon infinite ammo.]]

#### Even if their transport-system was inadequate, looting would keep the lead elements supplied [[note]] So they proclaimed that not obeying an order given by a German soldier was a crime punishable by summary execution, and that no German citizen would ever be tried for any actions taken against any Soviet citizen. While this helped the food-shortages, it didn't solve the fuel-shortages as the Soviets used diesel and not petrol. Attempting to 'water down' their petrol with diesel just wrecked their engines, even when the captured fuel ''wasn't'' sabotaged. Not to mention that it drove even the population disaffected with the Soviet rule firmly against them. After all, even those who hated Stalin had to admit that his secret police didn't shoot them ''on the spot'' simply to take their your stuff. They might shoot you if you openly opposed him, yes, or take your stuff if there was some weird new collectivisation drive--and frankly the latter were a thing of the past by 1941--but not do both at the same time.[[/note]]

* Averted in ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar''. 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't grow in Creep.
* Averted in "Fanfic/TarkinsFist". Much of the conflict between the Empire and the Earth is influenced by logistical issues.

** Averted and used: Averted with missiles and special weapons, sometimes one or the other with gun ammunition (depending on the game and difficulty level), but ''always'' used with fuel, so your plane can fly for as long as you want no matter how much fuel you ''would'' be consuming from all the crazy maneuvers and afterburners that will inevitably be used. The [=PS1=] games had a fuel meter, but it was merely a [[TimedMission disguised timer]] as the performance you demand of your plane didn't affect the rate at which it drained. ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'', and ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'' allow the player to Return To Base (RTB) during certain missions to repair (unless on a high enough difficulty level), rearm and swap out special weapons. Then again, [[HyperspaceArsenal the weapon capacities are more than physically possible (as seen by missiles or special weapons ''magically'' reappearing on their hardpoints)]]...

* Its predecessor ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' required the (raygun-based) weapons of all units to consume energy from your main resource pool in order to fire, how said energy GOT to your forces is another question.

* In the alternate history novel ''Biography of X'' by Catherine Lacey, sometime in the 1940s the southern states of America seceded from the northern states to become a fascist theocratic dictatorship. They did this by secretly building a giant wall between themselves and the North and erecting it apparently overnight--how they concealed all the materials, money, personnel, and labor that would be required to build thousands of miles of wall is handwaved. This would ''not'' be an easy task, given the rough terrain large chunks of the wall would have to go through, amd attempting to conceal it would only make it more difficult. The whole thing certainly couldn't all go up at once. But apparently there were no setbacks, engineering challenges, unexpected costs, random citizens who noticed a suspicious amount of trucks carrying concrete, federal auditors who wanted to know what all those new line items in the budget were for, or employees who slipped up and spoke a little too freely to the wrong person.

* Handwaved in ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. Terrans need to build supply depots to support more units and Protoss warp everything in from their cities. Zerg use an organic mat called the creep to circulate nutrients to their structures.

* ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-nerubians-journey-warcraft-si.1042773/ A Nerubian's Journey]]'' pays special attention to the problem of logistics both during and after a war. The Nerubians need several weeks after officially entering the war to actually help the Alliance as their empire is on an entirely different continent. While portals are a thing, setting up permanent portals that can handle the kind of traffic needed takes considerable time and effort to setup. Similarly, when the Horde takes control of Khaz Modan, they have to spend weeks both resupplying and building up a fleet of ships to cross into the northern half of the continent. Both Ironforge and Gnomergan are stated to have massive stockpiles of food as well as underground mushroom farms so their citizens don't starve during the siege. Lastly, because [[ForWantOfANail Alexstrasza is never enslaved by the Horde]], they're forced to make due with undead dragons raised by their death knights. But since most dragons fly to Dragonblight to die, dragon remains are very rare and replacing even one is difficult.

* ZigZagged in UsefulNotes/MegaDrive game ''VideoGame/DesertStrike''. Your Helicopter can run out of fuel, and will crash if fuel isn't kept topped up, and can only carry a limited amount of ammo, picking up more than maximum makes it go to waste. However, you can only get repairs at a landing zone, if you've got passengers on board, and the repairmen will only fix one sixth of your helicopters hit points per person. So if you land with five hundred of damage, but only two people, you have to continue onwards with half your health still missing. It's as if the rest of the air force wants you to fail.