Yaab
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Joined: 11/8/2011 From: Poland Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Taxcutter On Dec. 8, I moved every ship capable to a safe place and converted freighters into xAP, xAKE, AE, and AP units. I even converted a lot of 1000 cargo 10 knot scows into small (500 troop) xAPs. Most of these I don't have much immediate use for so I moved them either off the map (Aden, Capetown, Abadan, Frisco, Seattle and LA. I even stashed some in Adelaide after conversion. I still have plenty of shipping for logistical buildup, but the composition of my freighters colors how I do logistics. For now I use a "direct" scheme. I send 40,000 ton or so convoys directly from the West Coast US, or Cape Town to places that I need to build up. As I am short of escort, especially long-range escort, I send unescorted convoys the long way around. LA-Brisbane via Tahiti and Raoul Island, keeping an escort force at Brisbane to shuttle them into port. Because of the sub threat at both ends my LA-Pearl and SF-Pearl convoys are escorted the whole way. For the most part, this works. My long-haul ships have the range for this long way around. "Long-haul" to me implies 4000+ cargo, at least 10,000 range, and 12 knots. 14 knot and 16 knot freighter are used in mixed convoys with tankers. I am setting up a series of fueling stations so I can use short-range and smaller ships as I start attacking Central Pacific atolls. I have fuel depots on Christmas, Palmyra, and Dutch harbor. Pago Pago is also useful for this but it requires a good-sized garrison. I cannot afford to lose either Pago Pago, Suva, or Noumea. If they fall Betties can sweep those looping sea lanes. Approximate current stockpiles (on-map): Pearl 400,000 supply/650,000 fuel. Colombo 300,000 supply/400,000 fuel. Sydney 900,000 supply/150,000 fuel. Brisbane 25,000 supply/100,000 fuel. Noumea 40,000 supply/100,000 fuel Suva and Pago Pago 15,000 supply/20,000 fuel. Perth 8,000 supply12,000 fuel Darwin 17,000 supply, 20,000 fuel. Note: Darwin is semi-isolated and has gone semi-inactive til I can run in some "Malta convoys" Bombay 650,000 supply/200,000 fuel. Dutch Harbot 2,000 supply/2,000 fuel Adak less than Dutch. Brisbane is a mystery. I run in 40,000 ton convoy after 40,000 ton convoy and it never builds up supply. Sydney has plenty. This Brisbane thing is simple. In Australia, Sydney has the biggest port. The base with the biggest port in a given economy will accumulate all surplus of supply, resources,oil and fuel, thus you see Sydney getting huge amount of everything. If you want to up your supply in Brisbane, you have to either up its supply requirement or move supply by ships AND turn stockpiling on in Brisbane. If you interested in learning more about the supply-grabbing phenomenon, you can read this thread http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2780376&mpage=1&key=
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