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Pascal_slith -> RE: AE Map, Base, Economic Issues (9/2/2009 8:15:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Pascal
Sorry if this has already been brought up, but just got my AE edition and have perusing the map and bases.
As I mentioned in earlier forums on WitP, there is far too much fuel available in many bases at the start of the game (and there is not enough in PH). I still have an old .doc file I did for WitP with the proposed corrected amounts. The PH amount, for example, is based on the testimony in the Congressional hearings on Pearl Harbor (available on-line). The rest is available from the Pacific Fleet combat command summaries. Nimitz often mentioned that his biggest worry was fuel, and often complained of the lack of fuel in major ports (including the Australian ones; Sydney, e.g., is indicated as having only 5000 tons of bunker fuel a couple months into the war).
Also, as defined in the past, many islands with a port level of 1 should be a port level of 0 at the start (e.g. many French islands, the US Channel Islands, etc.), unless the game assumes a simple, small pier to be a port of level 1. Most islands did not have anything. Offloading was simply done over the side or 'beached'.
I'll post the details soon.
First short update. PH should have fuel on hand on Dec. 7, 1941, of 610'000, which represents the 4.5 million barrels that were confirmed on hand in the PH hearings. The correct amount appears in the database if you use the editor on the scenarios starting on Dec. 7, 1941.
Lahaina did not have any significant fuel storage facilities, so the fuel amount on hand should be drastically reduced from the current figure (down to a few thousand at the most).
Over 40 million barrels were on hand on the West Coast on Dec. 7th. To represent this I would suggest increasing the fuel on hand in the California ports, especially Los Angeles (closest to oil producing area) to 900'000. I'll find my reference to the 40 million barrel figure soon.
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