ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Can you outline the steps you took to get this to happen? Mine is very hit/miss. Did you simply stand down all other convoys leaving the Asian landmass (i.e., from Singers, etc.) and wait for it to flow to Fusan, where you had convoys pulling?
Can you tell where these resources came from? Did they come from Manchukuo (i.e., Port Arthur) or from further afield (Singers, Shanghai)?
Turn 269 (start of game): Resource level at Fusan 5000. First step I did was send a 8 ships of the Kasu-d variety to Fusan. I set them up to CS resources, coastal, to Shimoeneski. At the same time I started to build the Port. Half way to level 7 port, I switched to building the air field up to 4, then switched back to port. I don't remember why I did that...I cancelled what local convoys that were there, which wasn't much.
Second: I sent about 20 xak and disbanded them into port. These ships pulled in fuel which fluctuates now between 7,000 and 15,000 daily. So having ships disbanded in port the fuel the requested draw is 15K.
By turn 281 there was a stockpile of 61K resources. At some point I set stockpile = on. Not sure when. Perhaps day 1. It is curious, that for the next couple of weeks, the resources would jump from 12K to 60K and then be drawn down to about 12K and jump back to 60K overnight.
Somewhere along the way, I shut down most shipping out of Hokkaido and Sakhalin for fear of enemy planes and surface ships. They were shut down for quite a while until initiative swung over to Japan in the Kuriles.
By turn 341 the resources jumped to 90K. I believe I had offset Hokkaido shipments (lack there of) by very slowly increasing cargo ships. I started getting into the habit of adding just 1 or at most 2 ships, unescorted, with a pretty good lag between additions. Not much and very gradually. Somewhere around here I cancelled Port Arthur convoys.
By turn 361, I surpassed the 200,000 mark. All along I am adding a ship here and there to moving resources. At some point I disbanded an additional 20 cargo ships.
By turn 371, I topped 337K. It always advanced in the same manner. A big overnight jump, draw down, then jump back up.
Turn 385 saw Level 7 port, working on 8. AF size 4. I cancelled Shanghai convoys.
It is now turn 397. Lately it seems there is now 2 up days followed by a down day. Hard to read a lot into that because I haven't been keeping track of shipments out.
Somewhere around turn 390 I started shutting down all convoys to the Home Islands, and by now they are all off except from Hokkaido, Sakhalin and Fusan. I also started more aggressively adding 1 ship convoys from Fusan to the HI.
I tried pulling oil into Fusan early on. I parked a 8000 capacity tanker, and it simply sat there many days never loading. I gave up on him, and at some point a cargo ship with fuel capacity started making the trip...oil has now grown to the 4-5K mark and I will start pulling it out with a 2K tanker.
My plan is to mine the island, base ASW ships in each of three-four hexes most convoys sail thru (depending where on the HI they are unloading at) and there is really no ASW planes over the cargo route, but a fair amount to the western approaches.
Plus I am now trying to draw oil out, and in addition I am starting to pull fuel from Chinhe (2000 units).
It is looking very good.
Wow, that became a book![:D]
PS: From turn 385 Port Arthur peaked at 1.55 million resources. It is now 1.49 million and decreasing every day. Cam Ranh Bay is reducing its stockpiles rapidly. Saigon is holding around 20K,Shanghai drops for 3 days and then jumps back up to 100K. Resources at Hong Kong are growing from 806K to 897K since turn 391. Of course Singers is getting inflows from DEI.
I am worried about running out at Cam Ranh bay, but I will let that happen to see if I pull from Singers. What a boon that would be.
Overall fuel consumption has plummeted.
