Australian Heavy Industry

[Dereck]

I'm not sure I understand completely what I've read about this but what is the consequences of turning off Australian Heavy Industry? Are there any pros and cons to consider?

Thanks

[RangerJoe]

I'm not sure I understand completely what I've read about this but what is the consequences of turning off Australian Heavy Industry? Are there any pros and cons to consider?

Thanks

The heavy industry uses fuel and produces supplies. The Allies are limited in their tanker fleet but if a player grabs all of the fuel that they can from the DEI along with the oil, that should keep it working long enough to import fuel and only fuel from CONUS. There may be extra oil from Abadan but there are dangers hauling oil to Australia through the Indian Ocean.

[Sardaukar]

Just ship fuel from sources and it'll be fine.

Cape Town also has fuel, limited, but it has.

You can also ship fuel with xAK ships. Not efficient, but you can until you get enough TKs.

You don't really need to ship oil, unless in early war from DEI to deny Japanese.

[Scott_USN]

I generally have plenty of supply in South Pacific and Australia but up tempo operations can start guzzling fuel. In the beginning I turn off the very large industry. I turn them off around Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. I let a few of the smaller industry to run. Later on I can turn them back on but early on I am bringing so much supply from USA and Cape that it is not needed. I send bunch of AKs to Cape and all the tankers with longer legs to West Coast.

With all that said it is old habit. I have never actually run out of supply or even came near it in Australia zone, I have run low on fuel couple times to were Townsville was not getting any fuel for my smaller ships I based there. I had to actually send over some from Noumea which is my main base of operations in the Pacific area during most of 1942. By spring of 42 I generally have stockpiled at Noumea and Suva and I send my tankers on to Brisbane from Los Angeles.

I play one of the super insane Ironman games though also.

[RangerJoe]

Just ship fuel from sources and it'll be fine.

Cape Town also has fuel, limited, but it has.

You can also ship fuel with xAK ships. Not efficient, but you can until you get enough TKs.

You don't really need to ship oil, unless in early war from DEI to deny Japanese.

I mentioned the oil because Australia has more refining capacity than oil production and since the xAK ships can carry fuel, a player needs to make optimum use of their limited tanker and oiler capacity. So a player should grab what they can while they can do so safely.

[Sardaukar]

So a player should grab what they can while they can do so safely.

As Allies, you really don't need to do things optimally. Just enough.