Port size load/unload restrictions

[HansBolter]

Is there a data base available to players that details what devices can and cannot be unloaded at various size ports?

Rule sections 9.3.3 Port Size and 9.3.3.2 Cargo and Fuel Handling don't seem to provide the data I am looking for.

The reason I ask is that repeated attempts to reinforce Midway and Wake with additional Marine Defense Battalions always creates a situation wherein the battalions' 5" coastal defence guns cannot be unloaded at the size 1 ports. This, of course, begs the question: How on earth did the Marine defence battalions already occupting those atolls get thier 5" coastal defense guns unloaded?

It would really be great to know what I should not send to various size ports. Can some one pointg me in the direction of that info?

[xj900uk]

Have you tried loading/unloading them amphibiously?  You might suffer a few losses overboard & in the surf,  but this type of transport is a lot more flexible re your point of destination

[Rainer79]

I had no trouble deploying my Marine Defense Battalions using amphib TFs. I did try to make sure though that there is at least one true AK available per TF.

[Lifer]

I've read on these forums that you should use Amphib TFs when unloading at ports 3 and below.  The load cost of the unit's equipment exceeds the capability of the port.  Naval support should reduce the cost of unloading I think.

Greg

[HansBolter]

Thanks to all for the replies.

I hadn't thought, or read, to use amphibous TFs for this purpose. It certainly makes sense.

I probably wouldn't want to put naval support LCUs into a level 1 port at an atoll, even though they would help with the task under discussion.

[Blackhorse]

. . . and, for the Wake example, using amphibious TFs is historically accurate, too.

The US was still dredging a channel through Wake's reef into the lagoon when the war began. Before the war, the garrison and civilian contractors were brought in on transports that (weather permitting) anchored in the surf. Each transport averaged three days to unload its men and cargo via lighters to the shore.