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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

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ORIGINAL: Ambassador

But do you have US PT boats ? Nationality matters there too.

EDIT : re convoy exit point, I think that what BBFanboy is concerned with is seeing NJP park a submarine at the exit points for the most probable destinations - so, same latitude as Perth or Adelaide.

Nationality is less important. This is because there are very few non USN PT boat equivalents in the game. IIRC, neither the Dutch nor the Filipinos get any replacement boats, and the British get only a handful of future arrivals. It therefore comes down to where can the USN PTs be generated. They are limited to American or Australian conditions.

Alfred

Excellent link!

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

Remember there are two means of creating the boats from supply viz (a) TF carried supply or (b) national port. Each of course with its own criteria.

My recollection is that many years ago I did create some British MGB (they are the British equivalent of USN PTs) at an Indian port (= British national) which met the requirements (size 1 and 10k supplies). The same should be possible for the Dutch if they met the port requirement. The loss of the Javanese ports should not necessarily be fatal, though finding a suitable port which meets the port criteria and having any Dutch PTs would be the real challenge.

The basic point is that the built from supply types are overwhelmingly American so the coding effort went into refining the American and Australian relevant conditions as that was consistent with the historical record as adapted into the game abstraction. Thus it is possible to create USN PTs in a British port India but only under the TF carried supply rule.

Alfred

Edit: Further subsequent research came across a Don Bowen post of 13 January 2009 which confirms the accuracy of my comments in this thread. IOW, even after the complete loss of Java, the Dutch PTs could be "recalled" from the pools if a Dutch port, which meets the criteria, exists.

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ORIGINAL: Encircled

Course, your opponent will also know that reinforcements are coming, and he'll be trying to stop them

Its a long, exposed crossing from CT to Oz

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

There should be a reinforcement convoy tomorrow and I think it has Stuarts.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Our Port Stanley build up.

Dispatching lone cargo ships, and tankers, almost daily. They will stagger their arrival. The long legged merchants will head off to New Zealand, one ship at a time. This is a longer term project to get rolling but looks prudent given Japans attack in the South Pacific.

Should I send some of this fuel to New Zealand? My guess is to send a lot of it. There are a lot of USN Warships at Sydney...so much that I am really watching the fuel quite closely.

Lots of work needs to be done to make the route safer.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

On the western side of Australia the first convoys from Cape Town arrive at Adelaide...several already have arrived at Esperance.

Sydney also got 16k fuel from the first run from New Zealand to Sydney. Will change that and deliver the fuel further south in the future.