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grumbler -> RE: possible problem with the new patch? (5/31/2005 5:59:42 PM)
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I have never had an issue with convoys taking up too much time when playing Japan, since there are so few convoys actualy needed. I look at convoys about once a week, and start one from Osaka to Singapore and one from Osaka to Truk. The smaller AKs and TKs are at Singapore and Truk to get supplies to the forward bases. Meanwhile, I operate some smaller TKs and AKs out of Manila in big convoys to retrieve resources, and the supply convoy to Singapore stops at Manila to take resources back to Japan.
This is much superior to what the AC system used run for me, because AC sent empty tankers from Japan to come back full of oil, and sent tankers with fuel to maybe the exact same port and then brought them back empty. At the start of the war Japan has the shipping to support this, but the fuel wastage is enormous.
As the Alies the convoy system is even easier, since you don't have to worry about moving resources. Great big monster humongo convoys sail from SF to Brisbane via Canton I (with do not unload) every week or two, a six-ship+escort CS to Pearl Harbor, an even smaller on to Anchorage, and some small AKs and TKs in the "hub" ports to deliver to the local bases, and you are set.
Once you have a "system" convoys take only a fraction of the time that operations do - and take, in fact, less time than it used to take to track down the AC convoys to make sure that they were not doing anything incredibly boneheaded.
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