Aurorus -> RE: Disaster at Rangoon- advice needed (6/10/2017 6:17:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: verdugo94 Hello guys, Thanks you very much for your answers and your support, I will have to inject the supply from another place to Burma, as I decided to repair the refineries from Borneo because of this, I would like to have more fuel in the region for surface ships and it also will free some TKīs that are taking oil from itīs duties to extract it from Rangoon. BTW I think that they wonīt last long with this duty as Bullwinkle58 likes to bombard my oil production centers [:-] And Magwe is the closer he has. quote:
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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury Japan needs oil, not fuel. There is excess refinery capacity in the HI Of course having a fuel producing Rangoon is great for the fleet, but there are other relatively close places where the fleet can drink instead. Rangoon is a river port (only ships <15K tons) and therefore cannot accept the bigger ships, hence it cannot be used to operate a main fleet Who uses a port to refuel large surface ships? That is what oilers are for. Why donīt you refuel them from port? Oilers do not supply ammo to their weapons. And sorry for not saying clearly that I was playing Japan. AKEs for rearming guns, torpedos, and air sorties on CVs. I do use ports to rearm, when ships return to port to repair or refit. Otherwise, just AKEs. Even when at port, I rarely use the port to refuel, except on the Home Islands. I just find that many ports, such as Truk are always too busy to refuel a large CV or SCTF TF. That is why I like to have a few AOs nearby to refuel the ships. Then the AOs return to the DEI, pick up more fuel, and return to the fleet. I mostly use fuel in ports for cargo, transport, and the small utility TFs (minesweepers, ASW, etc... .) I use the fast oilers for the fleet. The slow oilers, I use to move oil or fuel from the DEI to the Home Islands. As Jorge mentions, they are more fuel efficient for continuous transit. Returning to port constantly to refuel uses more fuel. In my opinion, it is better to return to a major port only when necessary to repair, refit, or stand down. Hence in the long game, your CVs and SCTFs can remain on station, near the front, for much longer, using less fuel, if you use the oilers to run fuel to fleet rather than the fleet running to the fuel. Also ARs will repair minor operational damage. So, who needs ports?
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