Jim D Burns
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Joined: 2/25/2002 From: Salida, CA. Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: n01487477 I haven't loaded stock into Bohdi's util and it is really dependent on the speed of your TF, but let us say 25 days from LA to Sydney. 25 days... perhaps if you sailed in a straight line through the Marshall’s, but that is suicide. More like 60 days if you sail in the typical L shaped route most players use to get fleets into Oz (south to Pago Pago area, then west to Oz). And if your opponent is aggressive with his carriers in the central pacific, make that a 3-4 month trip instead of just the typical two month trip, as you’ll be forced to sail along the eastern and southern map edges. In CHS I found one large 400,000 - 500,000 ton oil fleet per year was enough to keep the industry chugging along at a reasonable pace. I then tried to get about 100,000 tons of supply in from the US about every other month or so, but that’s just subsistence level supply. I also occasionally sent some large fuel convoys in as well, as you want a large reserve of fuel in case you need to base your carriers at Oz bases during periods of intense naval actions. Noumea is the preferred refueling base, but keep a good stock of fuel at Oz and a smaller one in New Zealand so you have somewhere to send your fleets should your main refueling base at Noumea fall. Forget sending supply to Oz from India, it’s too easy for Japan to interdict your fleets due to the narrow map edge along the west side. I send all long legged AKs from India to the US right away. Anything with 12000+ endurance should be sent to the US via the long map edge route (west-south-east) in the first week or two, before Japan is in position to interdict the west map edge. You’ll have plenty of AKs arriving later to keep things going in India, and there really isn’t enough stuff to be shipped early on, so you won’t really miss that tonnage in the opening months. To be able to launch large offensives against major Japanese landings in Oz, you’ll need to get several 500,000 ton supply convoys in right before you attack so you can feed the 8-10 divisions or more (plus all the air) that you’ll need to force Japan off the continent. Jim
< Message edited by Jim D Burns -- 2/23/2009 6:09:32 PM >
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