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HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/10/2020 8:24:58 PM   
BillSirKill

 

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Status: offline 		Watched all of Harplonked Campaign walkthrough, reread the manual... But still confused about how to do this:

Setup Task Force in Karachi to go get fuel from Abadan and return with full load.
or
Setup a supply TF to go to a Supply Base and pick up supplies and return.

I know how to initiate a supply TF at a Base with supplies to supply another base.

Thanks for your help!
Bill
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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/10/2020 8:41:12 PM   
HansBolter


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The answers are simple.

TFs delivering goods can be automated using the Continuous Supply settings but MUST originate where the goods are stockpiled.

What you want to configure has to be done manually.

Send the ships at Karachi to Abadan, where they can be set up as CS TFs delivering goods to Karachi.

Send the supply TF to the supply base. When it gets there configure it as a CS TF running from the base with the supply to the base you want to deliver the supply to.

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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/10/2020 9:20:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello Bill, welcome to the game of your life.

Hans, as usual, is right on. A little more detail...

Use "CS" convoy types, by selecting "CS:(location)" vs. "Human Control". You need to start from the 'push' point, so send that Karachi tanker to Abadan to set up a recurring run of fuel from Abadan to Karachi. Note, once you've selected "CS:Location" in the lower right corner you can set to return with a specific load as well. So for example, you can run supplies from the Cape to Columbo and return with Resources. Set supplies from East Coast to Cape and return with resources... setting up supply chain from East coast to Columbo and return resources to US (this is not particularly important in stock version but is a needed action in LST's mod, which I like to play).

To do a pull (vs. a push) like you described you send the TF to the supply/resource/fuel point (action one), load'em up and send to the desired destination (action two). Nothing automated about it. Tends to be the way I work it, only using "CS" convoys for regular big moves of supply/resources/fuel, generally between off map "big" depots. Leaving the local delivery to manual setup. Note as well CS convoys will suck up fuel...so watch your refueling settings! Especially if you're using them to support your forward most bases.

Happy gaming


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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/10/2020 9:43:13 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: BillSirKill

Watched all of Harplonked Campaign walkthrough, reread the manual... But still confused about how to do this:

Setup Task Force in Karachi to go get fuel from Abadan and return with full load.
or
Setup a supply TF to go to a Supply Base and pick up supplies and return.

I know how to initiate a supply TF at a Base with supplies to supply another base.

Thanks for your help!
Bill

Sounds like you are just starting out. You should also send fuel from Abidan to Aden because that base gets a lot of British and Australian units arriving there and you need to support shipping that will move them on-map. Supply can come from Bombay/Karachi and even some from Abidan once in a while. I usually aim for 200K supply and fuel at Aden. The supply is mostly to accompany units going on-map and to allow for filling out TOE of arriving units.

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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/11/2020 2:22:36 PM   
BillSirKill

 

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Thanks!!

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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/11/2020 2:29:52 PM   
BillSirKill

 

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Status: offline 		I have started and shelved this game 15 times. I have loaded Kull, Tracker, Sardaukar's - Harplonk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onHH-cM0JM&t=70s.
I am now RETIRED and am damned to leave this planet before I finish a complete SP game!!
I am reading all the forums and AAR's.. Win or lose I will finish the damn thing!!
So Yes Kevin - - Happy Gaming!!
Again, Thanks!!
Bill

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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/11/2020 3:45:22 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: BillSirKill

I have started and shelved this game 15 times. I have loaded Kull, Tracker, Sardaukar's - Harplonk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onHH-cM0JM&t=70s.
I am now RETIRED and am damned to leave this planet before I finish a complete SP game!!
I am reading all the forums and AAR's.. Win or lose I will finish the damn thing!!
So Yes Kevin - - Happy Gaming!!
Again, Thanks!!
Bill



That's the spirit!

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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/11/2020 8:51:35 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: BillSirKill

I have started and shelved this game 15 times. I have loaded Kull, Tracker, Sardaukar's - Harplonk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onHH-cM0JM&t=70s.
I am now RETIRED and am damned to leave this planet before I finish a complete SP game!!
I am reading all the forums and AAR's.. Win or lose I will finish the damn thing!!
So Yes Kevin - - Happy Gaming!!
Again, Thanks!!
Bill


Go get 'em tiger.


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RE: HELP: Setting up Supply Task Force - 3/13/2020 4:58:21 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: BillSirKill

I have started and shelved this game 15 times. I have loaded Kull, Tracker, Sardaukar's - Harplonk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onHH-cM0JM&t=70s.
I am now RETIRED and am damned to leave this planet before I finish a complete SP game!!
I am reading all the forums and AAR's.. Win or lose I will finish the damn thing!!
So Yes Kevin - - Happy Gaming!!
Again, Thanks!!
Bill


I like your thinking.

Cheers,
CB


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