Auto-assigning convoys/escorts

[Zinzelbal]

I find it easy to leave it up to the computer to handle my ressource/ other convoys, so basically I let 'him' do all the assigning of convoys and escorts. However, the one aspect of this convoy system I don't understand is why the computer keeps putting all my convoys on one trade lane (e.g.: 165 convoys on a lane which normally requires 4 convoys) instead of assigning an appropriate number to each shipping lane. (I tend to intervene and manually assign a correct number)

How can I stop this? (Cancelling the auto-maintaining complicates things to much.)


EDIT: the reason this is becoming very important is because I need to have exact figures of units since the Americans are finally getting into the convoy raiding and I don't want them to go spoil things too much. (What? -3 victory points?! I bloody nuked Washington, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Boston and Miami, destroyed the entire US navy, destroyed all of their air defence and still they won't budge.)

[anonymous4401]

Yeah, it's a bit weird like that. If they're overconvoying a resource route it could be that you have resources stockpiled at the origin point and are bringing in a greater than normal amount. Not sure about the supply convoys, but it seems to work and keeps my troops overseas supplied.

[Lifewalker]

Regarding the huge supply convoys I find it always auto fixes itself after a few days once it builds a stockpile in the distant destination.

Regarding enemy raiding , its very useful to set it as a pop-up prompt when you lose a convoy ship , this allows you to click "go-to" in order to find the exact sea-zone in question to hunt the enemy subs. (I used to spend ages trying to find these places by manually examining the convoy-route info particularly for japan......

[Chaim Kaufmann]

This is a very basic question, but the manual does not resolve it:

Do I get convoy shipping in addition to whatever TPs I build, or do I have to allocate to TPs to a convoy pool?

Second Q:

If I mount an amphibious invasion, can I trust the auto convoy system to bring supplies to the beachhead, or had I better do it manually. What if the beachhead is not a port?

Thanks.

[Jones944]

Originally Posted by Chaim Kaufmann

This is a very basic question, but the manual does not resolve it:

Do I get convoy shipping in addition to whatever TPs I build, or do I have to allocate to TPs to a convoy pool?

Convoys and Transports are two different types of units in HoI2. If you want convoys, you build convoys (button under the naval button on the Production screen). Note that building one convoy actually adds 10 convoy ships to your convoy pool. Not sure about escorts, but probably the same build-one-get-10 thing.

Second Q:

If I mount an amphibious invasion, can I trust the auto convoy system to bring supplies to the beachhead, or had I better do it manually. What if the beachhead is not a port?

Thanks.

Seems to work for me, though the game tends to do things at midnight a lot. So, you may end up having a small window where there are no supplies on the beach. You don't need a port to have a supply depot.