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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: Major Convoys? (8/12/2010 12:26:56 AM)
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I go CT to Perth. The 10k and above ships will make it with Direct routing. You can salt in some 9k and 8ks with the big boys, and the latter will refuel them after they come out of the exit box headed to Perth. You need to decide how or if to refuel them at Perth. Depends on what you can spare there for the return. You can also run AOs with anything, but I think this route is a waste of them.
The East Coast to CT off-map route doesn't use fuel (assumed they refuel somewhere en route) so you can run xAKLs there if you can first get them to CT or EC fuel-wise. Early in the war you'll need to haul a lot of fuel in xAKs and xAKLs. You just don't have enough tankers.
Some off-map routes DO use fuel (see the manual) because the boxes take on-map movement. Some routes don't.
I leave a nest of xAKLs and the short-leg tankers (the TANs in particular) at Perth to distribute around the coast, especially to Darwin. I make emergency fuel dumps of under 5k at Derby and Broome.
Set the supply spinner at Perth for the situation; a lot of supply will head east by land if you do that. Fuel you really have to spread out by hand.
As far as westbound tankers off the WC, early on I don't do any except to Hawaii, and from there to Midway. IJN subs have laser finders for tankers, and your ASW isn't up to protecting them as they come out of San Diego or LA. Most people set up fuel way-stations at Pago-Pago or similar, but I don't fiddle with it. By the time you get them running you can stop routing around Tarawa (you've re-captured it) and your ASW is sufficient to allow the long-range tankers to be escorted all the way to NZ, Noumea, or Sydney without stopping. Those routes might justify an AO or two, but that's not until very late 1942 or 1943.
Fuel management is among the most personal preferenced areas of the game. Ask ten people what they do and you'll get ten answers.
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