ORIGINAL: michaelm
This is one of those unexpected outcomes. When grabbing resources, the AI expects Osaka to be Japanese controlled and builds a TF to go get resources. Yes, it did not check who controlled Osaka when doing this.[:-]
Could this auto-convoy confusion issue at Osaka also suck most of the supply the Allies ship into Japan? I am playing Scen 6 (Dec 8 start) as Allies vs. Japanese AI and am in the end game (March 17, 1946). I control all of Kyushu (except Nagasaki) and western Honshu up through the line of Shimizu, Kofu, Maebashi, and Niigata. My Soviet forces have also hooked down to Iwaki and Utsunomiya (spelling?) and are besieging both.
I have been maintaining only 55k troops in Osaka since a couple of days after I captured it, along with decent fighter protection; my bombers are based elsewhere in Honshu. I don’t have any AKs or TKs disbanded in Osaka, and only a few minesweepers based there. I was shipping all supply into Kagoshima (Kyushu), but recently switched to Nagoya.
Yet supply in Osaka has been continually growing, from 71k in mid-Feb (soon after I captured it) to almost 1.6M currently – supplies required has never gone above 20k. Fuel in Osaka has also grown from 20k in Feb to 281k. I’ve kept stockpiling “Off” for supplies, fuel, and resources at all bases in Japan. My problem is that my frontline base at Kofu (425k troop level) has been in the red for three turns now, and they are bombarding 150k worth of Japanese LCUs. I initially thought the ongoing bombardment was the issue, but now Maebashi, with over 300k Soviet troop level but no Japanese opposition for the past two weeks, just went into the orange for supply. No other base in Japan has more than 150k of supply, and most have less than 70k, even with large air units based on them.
I am not familiar with auto-convoys (I prefer to control everything manually) – if the AI auto-convoy system thinks Osaka is still Japanese-controlled, will it continue to draw most of the supply I ship into Japan for potential auto-convoys, or will it reach a level where it decides it has enough supply? I hate to think that my Allied convoys from San Francisco and LA will be delivering millions of supply points to Nagoya in the coming weeks, only to have all or most of it stolen by Osaka’s Yakuza bosses.
Yokohama is overfilled with troops resting and upgrading with a AV of more than 31000 (340 required) and on the city display, it is ok (see attachment)
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