Need some help with game start

[grumpyman]

convert some of your AK to AR, AD, etc.. It takes six months for the conversions so do some early so you have them when you need them.

[scott64]

Start training your pilots too [:)]

[docpaul]

SHould I use all my AK's on the West Coast to continually send supply and TK's with fuel to all my main bases in the Pacific?  Not sure just how much to keep sending.
ALSO..how do you convert AK's to AR's and such?
Thanks!

[Gem35]

AK with 7000 or more endurance disbanded in the port of San Francisco can be converted. Go to the Frisco base screen and click on the anchor symbol, in the list find your ships and you will see options on the individual ship details screen to change them to AR or MLE etc.

[Gibbons]

ORIGINAL: docpaul

SHould I use all my AK's on the West Coast to continually send supply and TK's with fuel to all my main bases in the Pacific?  Not sure just how much to keep sending.
ALSO..how do you convert AK's to AR's and such?
Thanks!

My method;

All AKs/TKs transport stuff to Pearl Harbor. I try to keep Pearl at 999,999 fuel and supplies. I station 10-30 AKs (depending on when in the game you are, as time goes by you get alot more tranports) and maybe 6-10 TKs at Pearl and ferry fuel/cargo to various bases. At the start though I send a huge shipment of supplies and fuel to Brisbane from SF and to Perth from Karachi. You can never have too much fuel or supplies where they are needed in my opinion. Better to have mountains of surplus than run short. Once Australia is stocked up on both coasts, I usually just ship stuff from the West Coast to Pearl and disperse from there. Karachi and Bombay can pretty much take care of Australia and everything else on its side of the world. Also, once there are plenty of supplies where needed I use AKs to transport troops and aircraft from the West Coast to where they are needed as there aren't enough APs to do it. I am at April '43 and have never stopped shipping fuel and supplies, ever. All AKs/APs/TKs are always working.

All warships and aircraft are always working as well. The Japs usually leave Wake to its own devices so I send CVs and bombardment TFs there nonstop to attack and gain skill.
In fact, every unit in the game should be doing something at all times. Start setting ground units to prepare for certain objectives so some of them are 100% prepared when the time comes.

Gibbons

[docpaul]

Thanks guys!