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Jim D Burns -> Rambling thoughts on Production (7/6/2004 9:59:47 AM)
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After spending some time looking over the allied production needs tonight using the totals posted earlier by von Murrin (Thanks for adding them up[:'(]), I’m struck by the fact there is only 75 oil available in India (I’m not counting Mandalay since it wasn’t available much of the war). Multiplied by six, that leaves 450 oil to run 2205 Heavy Industry in India, a shortfall of 1755 oil a day.
The Allies would need to ship 640575 oil a year to India from the U.S., to keep the HI running at top peak. With 3900 oil (650*6) a day in the U.S. feeding 3320 HI, that leaves an overage of 580 oil a day, or just 211700 extra oil a year, far short of India’s needs to say nothing about OZ, who will use every drop of that overage and still come up short of their 919800 extra oil per year needed over and above what they produce (2970HI-450oil = 2520*365 days).
Britain controlled Iraq and several other Middle Eastern countries at this time, so they should have no problem shipping oil in from the Persian Gulf region, why do we have to convoy oil all the way from the U.S. West Coast when it has no basis in history?
I guess since all HI production goes into a common pool it doesn’t really matter WHERE the oil goes as long as it gets turned into HI points. But why put so much HI in India then, was it an oversight and British plane factories were left out in the last minute? Is India short on supply later on when tons of allied units are in theatre and their HI isn’t producing the potential extra supply a fully running industry would create?
Now there are a total of 1165 aircraft factories of all types in the production list. If my memory is correct and I got all the engine numbers for the different plane types right, they are producing a total of 45 engines. 45*18=810 HI spent if all factories produced 1 aircraft a day, 1620 for 2 each, etc. This is a very simplified breakdown since many factories are of different size and can only produce a limited number of aircraft. For example a factory of size 50 can only produce from 1.7 to 2.6 planes a day depending on the random roll, not sure if rounded up or down.
After reviewing my (very simplified) numbers it is probably no problem to create enough HI to run the airplane factories (I count in excess of 5k HI a day without a single shipment once all HI has double stocks of oil on hand), so the real question is whether supply is sufficient in India without regular convoys from the U.S. bringing large stocks of oil to supplement the automatic supply.
I’m not criticizing anything here, I love the game and am engrossed in learning everything I can about its inner workings, I just thought this would be an interesting topic for discussion. Simpler than the Japanese so probably better to cut our teeth on the Allies first.
Jim
P.S. It’s late here [>:] so my apologies in advance if I’ve screwed up some numbers.
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