7.2 KiB
Delivered HQ small-arms ammunition reports
The current addition reports physical small-arms ammunition through the existing formation status uplink and lets HQ withhold a new armed infantry task when a fresh, complete report proves the squad empty. It is not general resupply, convoy rearming, ammunition manufacture or an urgent refill-request system. A controlled native radio/inventory run is recorded below; multiplayer and resupply remain unqualified.
What the local sampler observes
StatusSampler enumerates the same immutable original roster used for casualty accounting. Each living, still-owned member contributes to an AmmoSnapshot; unconscious living members remain part of that roster. A surviving original owned radio caller is still required to send status. Unknown/deleted or transferred members do not become fabricated ammunition counts or replacement soldiers.
The sampler reads owned inventory and weapon components, muzzle magazine wells, loaded magazines, carried compatible magazines and chambered barrels. Exact magazine-well types contribute known counts. A differing type accepted by the native inherited-well search makes the corresponding total incomplete, so potentially compatible modded magazines cannot create a false empty report. Physical item identity deduplicates loaded/carried enumeration and weapons sharing a compatible well. Magazine rounds and chambered rounds remain separate fields. Rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns and handguns form the small-arms category; supported launcher magazines/chambers are separate. Grenades and smoke do not stand in for rifle ammunition. Vehicle-mounted weapons, cargo stock, mines and loose launcher projectiles are outside this ammunition model.
Work is bounded to 32 members, 128 inventory items and eight weapons per inspected actor, four muzzles per weapon and four barrels per muzzle. Missing components, unsupported relevant weapon geometry, invalid loaded magazine wells/counts or an exceeded bound mark the affected information incomplete. Loose items with no magazine well cannot reload a well-bearing rifle under vanilla compatibility rules; they leave small-arms completeness intact and launcher information unknown. Launcher completeness is tracked separately where the unsupported data concerns only a launcher. Incomplete inventory never means an empty rifle squad. A squad with no observed small-arms muzzle is also not treated as proven empty.
What reaches HQ
The snapshot travels with the routine status report, scheduled every 180 seconds;
an HQ check-in request can make the next status due sooner. Busy radios and
physical route delivery still govern arrival. Local inspection, queuing and an
interrupted uplink do not update HQ ammunition knowledge.
Watch validates and copies the payload
only on delivered status, keeping the status source, message ID and observation
time. Later mutation of the sender's object cannot alter the delivered copy.
An accepted status without ammunition payload clears a previous ammunition claim.
The journal displays small-arms magazine rounds and chambered rounds when complete,
otherwise unknown.
ArmedSearchBlocked returns true only for a nonclosed formation with a complete
snapshot matching its current delivered living count, at least one member and
one small-arms muzzle, zero magazine rounds, zero chambered rounds, and status
age no greater than 180 seconds. A newer body report that changes the living
count invalidates that match until suitable fresh status arrives. Missing,
stale, incomplete or roster-mismatched information adds no veto: HQ does not
interpret uncertainty as proof that ammunition exists or that it is exhausted.
Effect on orders
HQ checks the delivered empty-ammunition veto while selecting new pursuit/intercept/contain/search tasks, retasking a search, and selecting a missing-patrol investigator. It checks again before applying a newly delivered infantry order, so an empty status arriving during that downlink can prevent the new assignment. A rejected pending replacement does not cancel the previously active assignment. Already active orders are not interrupted merely because ammunition evidence changes. Delivered release-only commands still work for an empty squad.
Only small-arms emptiness drives this initial decision. Launcher totals do not authorize anti-air fire or block tasks; no vehicle-weapon or mine budget is inferred. There is no automatic low-ammunition broadcast, low-stock threshold, ammunition transfer, refill, replacement unit or independent polling timer. Existing finite mortar/courier logistics remain their own implemented service; this new payload does not imply that the original broad truck/helicopter/depot supply network has been migrated.
Validation boundary
Sampler tests execute actual inspection and snapshot methods with native-component doubles: loaded/carried deduplication, shared wells, chambers, separate launcher information, unsupported/invalid inputs, work bounds and ownership refusal. Watch tests cover immutable delivered snapshots, exact freshness limits, absent payload and roster changes. Dispatch tests check the new-task gate locations and execute the actual delivery admission while preserving active orders and release commands. They do not prove native inventory API behavior or real client replication.
The 04:08:57 native run completes 49 assertions and one round with zero script/runtime failures. Five original surviving members report 1,120 compatible magazine rounds, 33 magazines and five chambered rounds. A separate native read observes 160 rounds in five loaded magazines and a full original-roster rescan matches the queued totals. The actual radio route delivers a distinct Watch snapshot, unchanged twenty seconds later. No inventory was drained or replenished. The arrangement is the existing controlled body-visibility fixture; it does not prove native depletion, ordinary squad resupply or multiplayer. This run predates the final conservative derived-well refinement, which has actual-method coverage and is compiled in the subsequent convoy run. It retains four external localization errors, so strict native/release qualification still fails. Cleanup and unchanged source/dependency inputs are confirmed for this run.
Failed attempts remain visible: compiler-expression limit, incomplete-inventory diagnostic, and component classification diagnostic. The second attempt has an original cleanup-verification failure and is explicitly unsealed; a later independent check verified the private prefix idle. Its runner was not rewritten or promoted. Native diagnostics identified loose rocket/flare projectiles with no magazine well; the category correction follows the stock reload/search predicates instead of claiming those items refill a rifle.