Convoys

[Beast_Face_666]

Hi there, I've been playing HoI since I part and through all this time there was one thing that always felt unfinished.

Convoys
Why You can't make them like they was?
I mean simply, You send for ex. 20 cargo ships, but not every day but once per 14 days.
That way You get job done, 20 ships is a LOT stuff to deliver.
And if enemy will intercept that convoy, You will fell that.
Not like that silly idea from III party when after some early patch You needed only 1 or 2 ships in each route.

I understand that this may not be in raised game, ban maybe in upcoming DLC? I always loved HoI for that simulation of war,
so i beg You, simulate Convoys better.

 

[LordOfWar16]

You assign convoys to an traderoute, which they will obviously repreat untill you stop them. You need more convoys in HoI IV, especially for longer trade routes than in HoI III. Other than that if they get intercepted all the stuff they carry will be lost, including lend lease and strategic resources from oversea colonies.

 

[Beast_Face_666]

Yeah, Thanks for answer.
But my question still is, will it be again convoy every day?
And is there hope for convoys that will not be like daily stream of ships between ports, but rather groups that will travel from time to time?

 

[Axe99]

I've been following this as best I can, and it's a bit hard to tell exactly how HoI4 will model it. Convoys look like they might be a but 'lumpier' this time around, but it looks like we don't assign escorts to convoys any more, but rather have ships in the same seazone running escort/ASW missions. As far as I can tell, it's still a fair ways off how actual convoys were run during the period, but it's a bit closer than HoI3. We'll have to cross our fingers and hope it gets patched in (or, if we're lucky, there'll be more capacity to play with how convoys work via modding, but I suspect this might be a bit optimistic, but would be very happy to be proved wrong ).