ORIGINAL: mind_messing
One suggestion to rationalise your West Coast coastal patrols that I've found useful is to really lean on Prince Rupert exclusively to support the North Pacific theatre, once you've expanded the port sufficiently.
This really cuts down on the coastal traffic, and coastline that needs patrolled, as rather than having ships going North/South, everything is East/West from San Fran or Prince Rupert.
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
You MUST have 2x TF carrying supply from Eastern USA to Cape Town throughout the game. If not, you can easily run low on supplies in India/Burma when 44/45 rolls around. Been there, done that! [;)]
I'd actually have far more working this route IMO. And move fuel as well. As RangerJoe says, there's plenty of ships for it.
I think in an ideal world, I'd look to use xAK's, mostly running off map to fuel the entire western half of the map and leave as many tankers as possible free to support fleet operations in the Pacific/Oz.
I learned the importance of Prince Rupert from Giants, and I am definitely building it up and working the lines there.[&o]
I am dispatching convoys daily to support Cape Town, Panama, Australia, NZ and now Port Stanley. India not so much, as I am using larger convoys there with an escort so they tend to accumulate at port loading or waiting for others to finish loading.
; Julia Child
