One thing often overlooked too is that supply on ships don’t spoil. Playing as Allies, later in the war, you may find yourself with a surplus of xAK, and bring a bunch of them forward, just in case.RangerJoe wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:10 pmThat is why some players use the hub and spoke system for the movement of units, supplies, and fuel. A nice hub with a good port to take the stuff from the lare ships and hold it until the little ships can load up and deliver it to the smaller ports. Other players just get frustrated about how long it take to unload a large ship at a small port. Or worse, get totally frustrated when a non-amphibious task force will not unload where there are no port facilities built!Sardaukar wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:58 am Indeed.
One thing often overlooked is the largest ship that can be docked in port. That can sometimes cause surprise even when TF total tonnage is lower than max. total limit.
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Also, you may use bigger convoys with more escorts, and have the escorts go back and forth but not with the same ships. For example, making a couple of stops along the way to Australia to « drop » a few xAK in Pago Pago, Suva, Noumea, in greater numbers than what can dock. In Sydney (and Brisbane, and other ports if needed), you leave all full xAK, and bring all the empty ones back to PH or SF (or Balboa, or SD, or whatever), and follow your tracks to bring back all the empty xAK from Noumea, Suva, Pago Pago, etc, on the way back. Likewise, you don’t have to wait to have escorts available to load supply on cargoes : have a number of them load & disband on the West Coast (or PH), so that you may be ready to create a supply convoy at a moment’s notice once you have available escorts. Still better than having 500 empty xAK sitting idle in San Francisco…
A bit more micromanagement, sure, but are we playing WitP to avoid micromanagement ?
