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RangerJoe wrote: Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:33 am Do the Allies also have issues with supplying units and bases early on?

LargeSlowTarget wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 4:11 pm

RangerJoe wrote: Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:33 am Do the Allies also have issues with supplying units and bases early on?

They are supposed to.

First of all, gone are the days of 1945 supply and fuel production levels on Dec 07, 1941.
Many Allied LI, HI, refineries, shipyards as well as oil and resource centres start damaged and need to be repaired in order to "ramp up production - and repairs cost supplies. If you ship too much of the supplies available early in the war to bases in the Pacific, not enough remains to repair your industrial base and the "ramping-up" will slow down.

Second, it is a good idea to ship resources from surplus areas - like Africa, Australia,India, the Caribbean and South Atlantic (i.e. South America) - to CONUS and the UK - because there is a resource deficit at these places, which will harm HI and LI production. This also ties-down shipping.

Third, most US merchant ships start unarmed (arming of US merchantmen had been authorised only three weeks before the PH attack) and thus need to spend some time in the yards in order to receive their armament. This also ties-down shipping in the early weeks.