Waste of supply for Japanese

[Greyshaft]

Is there a way to control the flow of supply to newly captured locations? I have spent the first few turns as the Japanese by occupying dozens of little locations such as Miri, Waigen Is etc and the d@mn AI is shipping thousands of precious supply points to those piddly locations where they will be remain unused. I would prefer to see the supply go into the Saigon-Rangoon pipeline to pump up my push on Dacca.

Oil is down to 19K and dropping very fast...

[deVada]

Well, the game provides the Emperor with four ways of supply distribution:

a) routine convoys
b) player made convoys
c) teleportation
d) destroyer chains
but only the first two are legal. [:D]

a) To have the base resupplied in next turn's beginning, make sure it wouldn't be attacked by enemy next week (and then receive "isolated" status), also make sure that the air over it is free of enemy air zones of control, and place one of higher HQs there (eventually using the "reinforce HQ" function - not a good idea at all). In next turn (of course if there are marus in Nagoya) some supply should be delivered there.

b) You can never make Your ships (either as allies or the empire) to resupply Rangoon in routine convoys. This base is always isolated for unknown reasons, so please make a convoy, load it up with as much supply as possible, give it target for Rangoon, standoff 0 and ROS order. They should get there.
After taking Dacca or Calcutta the ships from RCS should resupply area well. Anyway, the supply won't be proably necessary then.

Regarding to Your oil problem, it's impossible to have more than 10.000 barrels in stock after the big fall in early 1942. You should get used to it, You shall never get out of fuel for Your ships and planes, (even with 0 barrels in stock) only the Preparation Points rebirthing would suffer.

hope that would help
Peter

[Capt. Harlock]

Regarding to Your oil problem, it's impossible to have more than 10.000 barrels in stock after the big fall in early 1942.

I'm not convinced of that -- I had 11,000 units in the National Oil Reserve in October '42 in a PBEM game. (And then it went away after January 1943.) Much of the oil consumption does seem to be hard-wired into the game, and there are only a few things you can do to affect it.

One is to go to Rangoon with AO's. As deVada points out, Rangoon is almost always isolated, which means the routine convoys don't pick up oil. Both oil points and fuel can be picked up from isolated bases by "manual" convoys. (Check if the oil at a base has a "*" sign by the number. If it does not, the oil has NOT been picked up.) It is valuable to collect fuel from the fuel-rich bases in the DEI once you've captured them, and ship it back to the Japanese Home Islands. The reason is that when a Home Island city drops below 10,000 fuel units, it will automatically be re-supplied, at a cost of drawing down the Natioanl Oil Reserve. If you can keep the fuel levels high, the Oil Reserve need not be tapped.

Lastly, I have gotten good results by running manual supply convoys into Bankok. The land path brings the supplies to Rangoon, and the ships don't have to spend the time sailing around the Malaysian peninsula.