Resource Types
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:52 am
It would give resource management more flavour if the types of resources represented by the symbols were noted in light italic alongside. Here are the Pacific resources. The ones on the map are shown in italics below: the others I include only for completeness. Note the dominance in real life of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, the latter valuable for much more than just oil.
MAIN PRE-WAR STRATEGIC PRODUCTION, EXCLUDING OIL (mineral, world %, locations)
Source: Oxford Economic Atlas of the World 1959, with pre-war statistics for comparison
Note: chemical elements do not have capital initial letters, so when transferred to the map should be lower-case throughout
Malaya
Tin..............26%................Kinta/Larut
Rubber........43%................almost all Malaya!
Philippines
Iron...................<1%................Cebu, northwest Mindoro (Cebu also produces copper)
Chrome................3%............... Zambales (major) NW of Manila, Dinegat (minor)
Gold.....................3%...............Luzon & NW of Legaspi
Netherlands East Indies
Tin.......................18%.............. .Bangka/Billiton
Rubber.................36%...............whole east coast of Sumatra, most of Java
French Indo-China
Coal...................<1%..................Hanoi
Manganese............<1%.............Yencu (2 hexes S Hanoi)
Chrome................<1%.............Co-Dinh (SW Hanoi)
Tin........................<1%.............Chodien (2 hexes NW Hanoi)
Free China
Tin.........................<1%.............Hohsien (near Kweilin)
Iron.......................<1%............. Lanchow, but more in Kikiang
Coal.......................<1%..............Szechwan (= Chengtu, Chungking), also Shensi (= Sian)
Manganese............<1%.............Siangtan, Mosun
Tungsten...............48%..............Tuyuling, Kweitung, Lokchang, Hohsien (province of Fukien)
Mercury.................<1%.............Fenghwang
Antimony...............36%.............Hunan Province (= 1SW Changsha)
Intriguingly, there was a small oilfield in Szechwan! Isn’t it amazing that before the war 48% of the world’s tungsten came from Fukien?
Occupied China
Iron.........................................Tayeh (1 SE or 2 SE of Wuhan – big), 2N Peking, 3E Paotaw, Anshan (2S Mukden)
Bauxite....................................Hainan
Magnesium...............................Haicheng, Tashihkiao (both near Mukden)
Coal........................................3 NE of Chengchow
Gold........................................Tsitsihar (really should be a few hexes NW)
What is the resource SW of Suchow supposed to represent? I see that it started life (May 2006) one hex NE of Nanking. Its present position corresponds only to an insignificant coalfield. Can we move it somewhere near Nanking and Wuhan = iron?
Japanese Empire
Iron...................................Formosa, Chaeryong (= Pyongyang)
Lead....................................Fushun (2S Mukden)
Coal...............4%..............2N Sapporo
If it doesn’t affect play, it would be more accurate to move the Pyongyang resource 1SE into the mountains.
Soviet Union (Far East)
Iron.......................................1NE Vladivostok,
Coal..........................................3NW 1W Kharborovsk
Lead..........................................1SE Ussuri
Tin.............................................1NW Hulun
Antipodes
Nickel.................... 8%............New Caledonia
Lead......................... 16%..........Mount Isa
Coal......................... <1%..........Newcastle
Silver........................6%............Broken Hill
Iron..........................2%............Iron Knob
MAIN PRE-WAR STRATEGIC PRODUCTION, EXCLUDING OIL (mineral, world %, locations)
Source: Oxford Economic Atlas of the World 1959, with pre-war statistics for comparison
Note: chemical elements do not have capital initial letters, so when transferred to the map should be lower-case throughout
Malaya
Tin..............26%................Kinta/Larut
Rubber........43%................almost all Malaya!
Philippines
Iron...................<1%................Cebu, northwest Mindoro (Cebu also produces copper)
Chrome................3%............... Zambales (major) NW of Manila, Dinegat (minor)
Gold.....................3%...............Luzon & NW of Legaspi
Netherlands East Indies
Tin.......................18%.............. .Bangka/Billiton
Rubber.................36%...............whole east coast of Sumatra, most of Java
French Indo-China
Coal...................<1%..................Hanoi
Manganese............<1%.............Yencu (2 hexes S Hanoi)
Chrome................<1%.............Co-Dinh (SW Hanoi)
Tin........................<1%.............Chodien (2 hexes NW Hanoi)
Free China
Tin.........................<1%.............Hohsien (near Kweilin)
Iron.......................<1%............. Lanchow, but more in Kikiang
Coal.......................<1%..............Szechwan (= Chengtu, Chungking), also Shensi (= Sian)
Manganese............<1%.............Siangtan, Mosun
Tungsten...............48%..............Tuyuling, Kweitung, Lokchang, Hohsien (province of Fukien)
Mercury.................<1%.............Fenghwang
Antimony...............36%.............Hunan Province (= 1SW Changsha)
Intriguingly, there was a small oilfield in Szechwan! Isn’t it amazing that before the war 48% of the world’s tungsten came from Fukien?
Occupied China
Iron.........................................Tayeh (1 SE or 2 SE of Wuhan – big), 2N Peking, 3E Paotaw, Anshan (2S Mukden)
Bauxite....................................Hainan
Magnesium...............................Haicheng, Tashihkiao (both near Mukden)
Coal........................................3 NE of Chengchow
Gold........................................Tsitsihar (really should be a few hexes NW)
What is the resource SW of Suchow supposed to represent? I see that it started life (May 2006) one hex NE of Nanking. Its present position corresponds only to an insignificant coalfield. Can we move it somewhere near Nanking and Wuhan = iron?
Japanese Empire
Iron...................................Formosa, Chaeryong (= Pyongyang)
Lead....................................Fushun (2S Mukden)
Coal...............4%..............2N Sapporo
If it doesn’t affect play, it would be more accurate to move the Pyongyang resource 1SE into the mountains.
Soviet Union (Far East)
Iron.......................................1NE Vladivostok,
Coal..........................................3NW 1W Kharborovsk
Lead..........................................1SE Ussuri
Tin.............................................1NW Hulun
Antipodes
Nickel.................... 8%............New Caledonia
Lead......................... 16%..........Mount Isa
Coal......................... <1%..........Newcastle
Silver........................6%............Broken Hill
Iron..........................2%............Iron Knob

