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Its painful when you get the message that the AK can't unload the remainder of a unit and you know the japs are coming [:(]

ORIGINAL: Halsey

Use Amph TF's to move to all bases with less than a 3 port level.
Supply and LCU's.

If you don't it'll take WEEKS to unload them.

Sorry, but what is any reason to use TF's for "transport mission" if "amphibious mission" have all advantages (low lvl ports, no need to use "strat. mode")?

ORIGINAL: Husky

ORIGINAL: Halsey

Use Amph TF's to move to all bases with less than a 3 port level.
Supply and LCU's.

If you don't it'll take WEEKS to unload them.

Sorry, but what is any reason to use TF's for "transport mission" if "amphibious mission" have all advantages (low lvl ports, no need to use "strat. mode")?

Amphib operations cause losses and you cannot pack the ships as efficiently, i.e. load as much on to them as in transport mode.

Amphibious mission TFs are loaded in combat load. What this means is that only 80% of the cargo capacity of the ships (except of beaching crafts) in the TF is used. So it is not as efficient as using a TF with a transport mission. 

ORIGINAL: oldman45

Its painful when you get the message that the AK can't unload the remainder of a unit and you know the japs are coming [:(]

Yes it is; I've got a base force and defending units on Makin but the engineering vehicles are sitting at PagoPago waiting for a fast AK that can get in there, unload them and get the heck back out. I had tried to unload them from a xAK and it was just too slow, and I kept getting the dreaded "cannot fully unload the unit" message...

And Transport TF unloads way faster in decent-size ports.