Supply milk runs?

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

Supply milk runs?

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> Supply milk runs?

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Supply milk runs? - 7/21/2012 6:25:41 PM

DarkFib3r

Posts: 53
Joined: 3/4/2012
Status: offline

Is there a way to get a tanker or cargo ship to do a full load but then go on a circuit, dropping off smaller amounts of supply to a chain of bases? Some of my bases are requesting small amounts of fuel and/or supply and it seems like a shame to have to dedicate an entire tanker or cargo ship exclusively to them.

Right now, I send a full load to a base and cancel the unload midway through (usually a day or two later) and then send the ship off to another nearby base. But this lacks some precision; the rate that the unload works at the different bases governs how much they'll get, which is often not optimal.

Any thoughts, ideas, or techniques are appreciated!

Post #: 1

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/21/2012 7:02:49 PM

geofflambert

Posts: 14863
Joined: 12/23/2010
From: St. Louis
Status: offline

Don't dock them, that will slow them down some unloading. Usually they don't automatically dock unless they have a lot of their turn left. If they've unloaded enough, order them to stop unloading and send them to the next stop.

(in reply to DarkFib3r)

Post #: 2

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/21/2012 7:16:37 PM

kbfchicago

Posts: 359
Joined: 10/17/2009
From: NC, USA
Status: offline

I believe the short answer is "no". Am pretty sure way points only let you refuel (or not) en-route, no option for disembark or unloading at way points prior to reaching your end point destination. For clustered bases, say islands around Pago Pago if like me you tend to play Allied, have one location as your main "drop off" point from the mainland and use a few TFs of small tankers/cargo ships to make the rounds to the other local islands from that local central supply dump. Just sending out the small ships to drop and return to Pago, one island each run. Completing a couple of runs a week. Establishing a cadence to keep all supplied.

(in reply to geofflambert)

Post #: 3

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/21/2012 8:06:52 PM

Dan Nichols

Posts: 863
Joined: 8/30/2011
Status: offline

I set up a supply/fuel hub and use the small xAKLs to distribute to outlying bases.

(in reply to kbfchicago)

Post #: 4

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/22/2012 4:54:45 PM

Shark7

Posts: 7937
Joined: 7/24/2007
From: The Big Nowhere
Status: offline

Easier to set up a bunch of convoys to do the 'milk runs'.

Send a major task force from your home port loaded with fuel, set it to computer CS and let it repeat the trip over and over to a forward supply dump. Then from that forward dump make a bunch of small task forces the same way, hauling the fuel from the forward supply dump to places you need it again on repeating CS convoys.

For example:

As the IJN, I run a big tanker (or AK loaded with fuel) convoy out of Tokyo using my 10k plus tankers and/or large AKs. I send this one to either Saipan or Truk, and from their I use smaller AKs or singles of those 1200 load tankers to take the fuel to places like Palau, Kavieng, Rabaul, etc.

In other words, you make a convoy supply chain, instead of depending on one ship to do all the work, you use several ships to handle the job (its also not as devastating to the supply situation when you lose a single ship to subs). Another advantage of this is you do not have to babysit it like you would using the single ship method of go here, unload one turn, send it to the next stop, etc.

_____________________________

Distant Worlds Fan

'When in doubt...attack!'

(in reply to Dan Nichols)

Post #: 5

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/22/2012 10:10:17 PM

DarkFib3r

Posts: 53
Joined: 3/4/2012
Status: offline

Great answers, everybody. Thanks for replying!

(in reply to DarkFib3r)

Post #: 6

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/23/2012 11:06:50 AM

Itdepends

Posts: 937
Joined: 12/12/2005
Status: offline

Another advantage is that it is more efficient to have your larger and/or faster AK/TK's on runs between big bases where they can load/unload faster and use the smaller ones from there to the small bases,

(in reply to DarkFib3r)

Post #: 7

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/23/2012 6:27:33 PM

goatan

Posts: 46
Joined: 8/3/2006
Status: offline

quote:

Send a major task force from your home port loaded with fuel, set it to computer CS and let it repeat the trip over and over to a forward supply dump.

Just to check i understand you if i set a convoy up to deliver supplies to Brisbane from San francisco and then set it to computer control it will make multiple trips automatically?

(in reply to Shark7)

Post #: 8

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/23/2012 7:37:38 PM

House Stark

Posts: 184
Joined: 4/30/2011
Status: offline

You need to click twice on where it says "human control". The first click makes it "computer control" and the next makes it "CS". CS task forces go back and forth between two bases transporting the designated material (supplies, fuel, resources etc).

(in reply to goatan)

Post #: 9

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/25/2012 12:57:21 PM

goatan

Posts: 46
Joined: 8/3/2006
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: House Stark

You need to click twice on where it says "human control". The first click makes it "computer control" and the next makes it "CS". CS task forces go back and forth between two bases transporting the designated material (supplies, fuel, resources etc).

You have made me a very happy man

(in reply to House Stark)

Post #: 10

RE: Supply milk runs? - 7/26/2012 2:46:55 AM

Alekks

Posts: 43
Joined: 7/6/2004
From: Belton, Texas
Status: offline

Be sure to check the intended CS convoy path and adjust as needed using waypoints. The default of the game engine is to go by the most direct route between origin and destination locations. Early in the war, this can bring the Allied CS convoy (West Coast to Australia) within LB air range as the route does not swing south at times until it gets west of Pearl. That course will run straight into hostile LB air umbrella.

(in reply to goatan)

Post #: 11