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BBfanboy -> RE: Fuel Consumption (4/4/2020 11:00:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: dr.hal
But BB, that flies in the face of what the manual (in 6.2.13) states "Since each ship checks the TF move against its own Cruising Speed, ships in the same TF can use up different amounts of endurance in the same move."
I'll see if I can find Alfred's post on the subject. IIRC, he said something about the manual not being entirely correct on this subject.
Found something, but it is from 2011, not the much more recent one that I recall. Here is the 2011 exchange which basically says the fuel consumption at full speed is (40 + 240 =270/40 =) 7 times the normal cruise speed usage per hex.
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ORIGINAL: brian800000
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ORIGINAL: pacificbetta
Thanks, that is what I thought, but ouch, the Tosu PBs have a fuel of 91, that means a range of less than 3 hex? So does that poor fella starts drawing down his endurance of 1700 after hex 3, or does he slow down the entire convoy to "refuel from other ships"?
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ORIGINAL: brian800000
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ORIGINAL: pacificbetta
Hijack the thread a little :P
Does anyone know how exactly is fule consumption of a ship calculated? The manual said fuel is deducted from endurance, does that mean for each endurance that the ship consume when it moves, it exhaust 1 fuel point?
I think for non carrier groups 1 endurance equals 1 mile at cruise speed. Full speed burns a lot more. Divide the endurance by 40 and you get the range in hexes.
No, I think fuel is just the amount of fuel points held by the ship. So if a PB has an endurance of 1700 and a max fuel point of 91, it can still go 40+ hexes without refueling. I assume fuel points are just burned in proportion to how far you have gone (ie, if you travel that PB 850 miles, you would burn about 45 fuel points).
IMHO, I don't think this quite explains it clearly enough for new players. So here goes an attempt to explain fuel consumption more fully/clearly.
The distance a ship can travel is determined by it's endurance number (see page 105 of the manual). Each hex travelled uses up a certain amount of endurance. At cruise (or lesser) speed, the endurance used up is 40 x number of hexes travelled. Hence at cruise speed a ship which travels 4 hexes reduces its starting endurance by 160 (ie 40 x 4). Travelling at flank speed, the endurance reduction is an additional 240 endurance per hex moved beyond the distance traversed which the cruise speed setting would have achieved.
The fuel points listed on a ship's screen should be read as the amount of fuel, measured in tonnes, in the fuel tanks. When refueling the ship, an equivalent fuel point (or tonne) will be removed from the port fuel stockpile. Hence if a ship has only 1 fuel point left out of its maximum 91, when it refuels it will transfer 90 fuel points (tonnes) from shore to its fuel tanks.
Note that different ship classes can burn fuel at different economy rates steaming at the same rate. Hence different ship endurance totals can result from the same fuel points.
Alfred
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