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Trying to feed Australia with oil. I do nit have 1 ship that can go from West coast of US to Australia.
Do I need to shuttle it to Fiji then to AZ or is there another way?

Also there is a button for auto supply. And stock pile. Does anyone use them and how does that work?

Set up fuel depots along the way with either fuel unloaded already and/or tankers loaded with fuel in the port. If you set it up as a base, increase the port size and the airfield so your depots can hold more. Include air support and you can use these to ferry aircraft squadrons as well as have air units to patrolling purposes.

Stockpiles are handy when you need to keep supplies there to repair factories and such. You need to have at least 10,000 supplies or factories don't repair. This is more important for Japan. But you also want 20,000 supplies at a base so units can upgrade devices, and get replacements. Air units also have to have a large airfield and lots of supplies to upgrade aircraft. You can so set stockpile to "Yes" when you want to keep supplies at the base and not have them sent to other bases although it will supply units in its area if the units need supplies.

ORIGINAL: jagsdomain

Trying to feed Australia with oil. I do nit have 1 ship that can go from West coast of US to Australia.
Do I need to shuttle it to Fiji then to AZ or is there another way?

Also there is a button for auto supply. And stock pile. Does anyone use them and how does that work?

Double handling is inefficient! Do not unload and then later reload and take to OZ. There are a few tankers that have range 12000 miles or a little more. All you need do is send them to OZ with a waypoint at PH or other base with fuel. When you set the waypoint you can specify how much fuel to give it to let it complete the round trip.
If you must avoid PH because of subs and your SOPAC bases are short on fuel, just set the tanker/AO to go directly to OZ to unload but set the fuel orders to "minimum refuel". The tanker will take a small part of the fuel it unloaded to ensure it can make the trip back to the US.

Also, set the TF to "Direct/Absolute" routing to make sure it does not divert somewhere because it thinks it will run out of fuel.

BTW, you can also haul fuel from Abadan to Perth quite nicely. The ones with 8075 capacity have good range and with a refueling waypoint at Colombo they can reach Perth and return without refueling there. Fuel unloaded in Perth will use the rail system to go where it is needed.

And you can use Cape Town to deliver to Perth/Adelaide or even Melbourne. CT itself can run short of fuel unless you send some tankers to ECUSA to load fuel and deliver to CT. This can be set up as a CS type convoy. Note that AOs must be set as a Tanker TF not a Replenishment TF if you want to set the TF as a CS TF.

I'll add, in most scenarios the USN has *one* escort - USS Charleston, an Erie class PG - with a 12,000 NM range. She's a good primary escort for Australia-bound Tanker convoys. I wish you could get her sister, but USS Erie was sunk in the Caribbean in 1942.

As noted, there are several options for getting fuel to Australia. I tend to load convoys at Los Angeles, run them through a waypoint or two in the deep South Pacific, and deal with feeding them some fuel in Sydney for the return trip. Other convoys run fuel to intermediate points (Suva and Noumea, for example), and of course to Pearl.

If you're not carrying fuel as cargo in xAK's, you pretty much need to keep most of your tanker fleet moving most of the time.

Be patient. Australia is moving north at 3" per year

For factorya to make fule and supplys do they have to have oil or do they just do it on there own?

Perfict! Lol

Refineries turn oil into fuel and supply, depending upon the scenario - no supply. LI turns resources into supply. HI turns fuel and resources into Heavy Industry (HI) points and supply.

I definitely suggest that you read the manual if you have not read it. If you have read it, read the pertinent sections again. [:@]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Refineries turn oil into fuel and supply, depending upon the scenario - no supply. LI turns resources into supply. HI turns fuel and resources into Heavy Industry (HI) points and supply.

I definitely suggest that you read the manual if you have not read it. If you have read it, read the pertinent sections again. [:@]

warspite1

Alternatively you could start thinking outside the box. Have you tried moving Australia instead?

ORIGINAL: jagsdomain

For factorya to make fule and supplys do they have to have oil or do they just do it on there own?

Fuel is made by having oil and a refinery. Each refinery center (point) uses 10 oil inputs to make (depending on the mod) 10 fuel or (in stock) 9 fuel and one supply. Manual section 13.2.2.3.

Supplies are made from resources by Light Industry (15 resources to make one supply) and Heavy Industry (20 resources + 2 fuel makes two supply and two HI points).

Additionally, some places on the map get daily supply that is deemed to arrive from the surrounding area. Aden gets a bit, and I believe most other off-map based do as well. San Francisco most certainly gets more than actual on-map Industry would provide.
I am unsure whether Japan has any places that get any such intrinsic supply.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Refineries turn oil into fuel and supply, depending upon the scenario - no supply. LI turns resources into supply. HI turns fuel and resources into Heavy Industry (HI) points and supply.

I definitely suggest that you read the manual if you have not read it. If you have read it, read the pertinent sections again. [:@]

warspite1

Alternatively you could start thinking outside the box. Have you tried moving Australia instead?

We could just give Australia some 3D printers and let them print their own supplies. They could double their number of Matilda tanks in a month!

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Refineries turn oil into fuel and supply, depending upon the scenario - no supply. LI turns resources into supply. HI turns fuel and resources into Heavy Industry (HI) points and supply.

I definitely suggest that you read the manual if you have not read it. If you have read it, read the pertinent sections again. [:@]

warspite1

Alternatively you could start thinking outside the box. Have you tried moving Australia instead?

Put some pontoons under her....[:D][:D][:D]....GP

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Be patient. Australia is moving north at 3" per year

Then it will not be long before Australia have winter during the Christmas season.

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Be patient. Australia is moving north at 3" per year

Then it will not be long before Australia have winter during the Christmas season.

It's an issue for self-driving cars. The GPS decimal places have to be updated.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Zorch

Be patient. Australia is moving north at 3" per year

Then it will not be long before Australia have winter during the Christmas season.

It's an issue for self-driving cars. The GPS decimal places have to be updated.

Why? Can't the self driving cars drive in snow?

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Orm



Then it will not be long before Australia have winter during the Christmas season.

It's an issue for self-driving cars. The GPS decimal places have to be updated.

Why? Can't the self driving cars drive in snow?

Snow does not enter into it. The lines that mark roads and lanes move.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Zorch



It's an issue for self-driving cars. The GPS decimal places have to be updated.

Why? Can't the self driving cars drive in snow?

Snow does not enter into it. The lines that mark roads and lanes move.

Of course it doesn't matter now. But when Australia is located in the Northern hemisphere...

I mix TKs and xAKs( ones with large endurance ) into a single TF so it has enough range to travel to OZ and back without any refueling.

The ones with less endurance can be used to stockpile supplies in Hawaii and other locations. Use them to send supplies from the East Coast to Cape Town as well.

Australia is not too much of anything.
If you want a second opinion ask me again!