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ORIGINAL: krb3

Tanks for the help. I've uploaded pic of my industry/troops/resource pool "Mines". Says I had some in pool. How do I get them to any port I want, say Pearl or Sydney for example.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Yes, it is a lot easier than it looks. As long as your capable ship or sub is in a large enough port with sufficient supply you can load mines. Create a mine laying TF or mine laying sub TF and then just click replenish from port and the ship will load mines as well as needed ammo and fuel. You do not have to ship mines to a port. The supply is global as long as you meet the requirements and have mines in your pools.

But note that mines are a limited resource and you should watch your pools carefully. Some early war mines (Dutch for example) have only what is in the pools at start and you get no more. Some other types (American Mk 10) go out of production. You can burn through them pretty fast. Also ML types ships will reload mines while disbanded if in a large enough port. You have to set the stockpile key to yes if you don't want all your mines to disappear. This way you can control what ships will get them. Or just make sure the CM and DM types of ships are disbanded in small ports if you do not want them to reload.

In 1943 you will get mines that can be dropped by air. Most any Allied bomber of two engines or more can be assigned to drop them via the city attack menu.

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ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

The key point: mines do not have to BE in a port for them to be loaded into a TF, they simply have to BE in the "pool," and then they are available to any port that has the capacity to load mines.

"Supply" in this instance abstracts "mines," but it also abstracts a lot of other things, including: "torpedoes, bombs, av gas, bullets, artillery shells, beans, hot sauce, medicine, spare radio batteries, toilet paper, tents, etc., etc."

Think of "1" unit of supply as one ton including: a proportional quantities of anything that might be needed by a WWII era military force (either naval, air or land) and which is not otherwise represented as a resource that must be moved around the map.

ADDIT: also, not sure about Allies but for Japanese there are quite a few different ships that can load mines and deploy them there is a table in the manual that seems fairly accurate. Best thing I've found is to just fiddle around and see which ones I can get to load up mines in the larger ports with plenty of supply.

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ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

One other pointer (possibly inaccurate, not sure): having skimmed various threads over the years, I have the sense that there is a functional difference between:

(a) a port with 100 mines deployed, which were all deployed at once, i.e., in one packet of 100; and
(b) a port with 100 mines deployed, which are deployed in ten packets of 10, even assuming that all ten packets were deployed on the same date.

Supposedly, many small packets are "more resistant" to mitigation/nullification by the enemy (meaning the mines are "swept" away, else the minefield is mapped and subsequently avoided). Assuming this is true, deploying mines in smaller packets is a more effective gambit. I'll leave it at that as some of these other guys probably know better than me and may be able to clarify/correct.

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If it arrives at home base with "Lay Mines" still set it will drop them at the home port harbour!
For this reason I usually leave the unloading instructions at "Do Not Lay Mines" until it is within range of the target hex and will be able to lay the mines there next turn.

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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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If it arrives at home base with "Lay Mines" still set it will drop them at the home port harbour!
For this reason I usually leave the unloading instructions at "Do Not Lay Mines" until it is within range of the target hex and will be able to lay the mines there next turn.

Interesting. Thanks.