ORIGINAL: cblattmann
I appreciate all the replies. But let me rephrase the question.
It is about 7,000 nm from San Francisco to Sidney. All tankers have endurances far greater than that and can easily make a one way trip (as seen in the upper part of my image). All numbers are in green when I set the home part to Sidney which I understand makes this a one way trip.
When I make this a return trip by setting the return harbor to San Francisco all but one number are in red. The one that is in green is a tanker that can make the trip without having to refuel. All others are in red because there endurance falls a bit short of being able to make the trip without refueling. Therefore I changed the refueling option. ). No matter what option I chose, the numbers never changed to green. On a full-refuel as shown in the image the numbers should be green because these tankers just crossed the Pacific (proofing they can do when fully fueled). So why are the number still in red?
Am I missing something here?
As Alfred already wrote, the refueling possibilities are not taken into account when determining the colors. After all, you might not have enough fuel there when your ships arrive.
And you have no tankers in that screenshot, only cargoes (and an auxiliary).
The direct trip from SF to Sydney is 176 hexes (or sometimes 177, depending on some routing options/calculations). An Isthmian has an endurance of 340 hexes, so you’re short 12-14 hexes even in the best of circumstances, but you really shouldn’t embark on a direct routing from WC to Oz, as it will take you through the middle of the Marshalls-Gilberts (and in range from G3M/G4M at Roi-Namur).
To see the numbers green again, you’ll have to wait after a refueling operation. You can either send a Federal-class tanker from LA to Christmas (and probably delay the departure of your cargoes a day or two), or load the AO tenders in LA to do an undersea replenishment of your cargo TF, or include an AO in the TF.
A routing through Christmas, and then two waypoints south of the Tongas will add 12-20 hexes, depending on how far south you’ll go, making the round trip around 370, give or take. That’s an extra 30 hexes over the endurance. Christmas is only around 80 hexes away from SF, so topping the cargoes’ fuel tanks there is enough to make the round trip. You don’t even need to plan a full refuel, tactical may be enough, as the TF may take the same route to RTB.
Or you may do a full refuel, but change the routing on the way back.
; Julia Child
