Bogo Mil
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I'm in 5/42 against the AI in RHS-MAIO. That's where most of my experiences are from. In the Indian Theatre, I have a good surplus of AKs now. Dozens of these are sitting around idle. I start to send some of these to the Pacific, I don't have enough there. If I had to send ressources to Aden, the large merchant fleet in the Indic would have more importance. There would be more reason to send ships to Aden, not less! You also had to send convois to Calcutta on a regular basis - the Japs could try to intercept this shipping, so you had to fight... All in all, I think the theatre would be both more realistic and more interesting. As I wrote, a small supply surplus "for free" is ok. But not as much as in New Orleans. If you don't send anything and don't move several divisions out, they will start to starve eventually - so what? I don't think any human player would be that stupid, though. For pure realism, Aden should need oil as well. But shuttling oil from Muscat to Aden would only be boring routine work, the Japs wouldn't have much options to interfere (it's all off map shipping channel), so I think this can be skipped, Aden can be self sufficient in oil. You are right, the idea can be applied at Cape Town, too. The player could utilize the resource surplus of Australia there. Recife and the other South American towns should stay what they are, imho. This is 3rd world and it should export ressources, not require them. I think it's perfectly in line with the primary house rule to send ressources from South America to New Orleans.
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