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Urumchi captured!

First turn after capture

Second turn after capture

Third turn after capture

Fourth turn after capture

So it did move a few turns after capturing the base. Unfortunately, with a cat with sharp claws pushing them into my bare skin I could not do more than that for the pictures. But the oil already at Port Arthur has to be hauled out of Port Arthur and in fact, one turn Port Arthur did not refine oil due to a shortage. But since I have around 500 excess refining capacity at this time, that is fine. I also have enough fuel so there is no shortage either.

But a player can get it to move.

It is still early in the war, still only February 1942. I am doing this only to try a few things, at least until the new Beta is released. Here is part of the strategic map, the relevant part showing the control in China. I just captured Lanchow. There is only 3 extra oil in Sian for any extra oil to show up, the oil is still moving from Urumchi. If I had Tracker installed, I could probably figure out better where the oil is moving to for sure but I have no problem with this system right now.

the road between Port Arthur and Urumchi is long and mostly secondary thus slow moving with attrition(?). As Japan I've captured every base (including all "dot" locations) in all of China and still the flow of oil to PO is a trickle....not sure what will help!

dr.hal wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:52 am the road between Port Arthur and Urumchi is long and mostly secondary thus slow moving with attrition(?). As Japan I've captured every base (including all "dot" locations) in all of China and still the flow of oil to PO is a trickle....not sure what will help!

Try basing a tanker task force in Port Arthur to help create some regional demand which might draw it forward. Fine-tune the stockpile arrows so no other source of fuel can flow there.

Not bad. These are stock-Abadan/Boela numbers.

I am now pulling out fuel from Port Arthur, no more oil from Port Arthur. But it keeps flowing using a grey road all the way to a rail road line to Port Arthur or a grey road all of the way, it does not need a yellow brick road.

The only reason why I posted this is so many Japanese players mention that they can't get the oil flowing from Urumchi but this shows that it can flow. Every bit of oil not pumped is means less fuel and fewer supplies. Fuel helps to become HI and/or fleet operations. I have yet to open the magic highway in this game, I may go back and restart from a previous save just to try different things. I probably should install Tracker for better planning but I have never crashed the Japanese economy although at the beginning there have been times when things did not expand when I wanted them to.

Emperor Hirohito, casually walking in the Gobi Desert: "The oil must flow".