Monkey_Feces,
What difficulty are you playing on. I can't be sure of my advice unless you are playing on very hard. There is a 10% industrial modifier for each level of difficulty that affects ICs but not resources. If you play on normal the resource situation becomes a lot worse and, I believe, unmanageable. If playing on very hard then the following works perfectly for me.
1. Cancel all trades at games start
2. Put in place a lot of 100-100 trades of coal for rubber. You are trying to drain the world market rubber reserves before anyone else does. I usually run out of coal and coal supply is temporarily the limit on trading.
3. Late in 1936 the rubber supply will run out and you will find all your trades fail. Start trading for steel and allow coal and steel to build up. Put in place some limit 1-1 trades for oil to start the oil reserve rising.
4. Do not trade at anything other than 1-1 until you have a nearly full stockpile of coal. Try to trade your steel upto full stocks when steel is available.
5. When coal is neraly full put out 5 or 6 400-100 coal-rubber trades. This will rapidly deplete your coal stocks and turn them into rubber. It is better to trade intensively for a short time than to trade more modestly over a longer period as you can often pick up odd bits of rubber at 1-1 at other times.
6. Always have 1-1 rubber trades set up to acquire any surplus that appears. You will have a long period in 1936 where you should be able to maximise rubber reserves. If you trade intensively you should even be able to get an extra 10,000 stored in East Prussia. There should then be another period later on nearer to the war although this does vary a bit.
7. Always run down your coal stocks just before Anschluss and the end of Czechoslovakia as you acquire major stocks in both events.
8. Aim to have maximum stocks of all non-coal resources just before you DOW. Remember that East Prussian stockpiles will merge shortly after the invasion of Poland and therefore it is quite possible to waste stocks by having too much.
It doesn't matter if you have low coal stocks, you have an internal surplus and it is the most common stockpiled resource to capture.
What difficulty are you playing on. I can't be sure of my advice unless you are playing on very hard. There is a 10% industrial modifier for each level of difficulty that affects ICs but not resources. If you play on normal the resource situation becomes a lot worse and, I believe, unmanageable. If playing on very hard then the following works perfectly for me.
1. Cancel all trades at games start
2. Put in place a lot of 100-100 trades of coal for rubber. You are trying to drain the world market rubber reserves before anyone else does. I usually run out of coal and coal supply is temporarily the limit on trading.
3. Late in 1936 the rubber supply will run out and you will find all your trades fail. Start trading for steel and allow coal and steel to build up. Put in place some limit 1-1 trades for oil to start the oil reserve rising.
4. Do not trade at anything other than 1-1 until you have a nearly full stockpile of coal. Try to trade your steel upto full stocks when steel is available.
5. When coal is neraly full put out 5 or 6 400-100 coal-rubber trades. This will rapidly deplete your coal stocks and turn them into rubber. It is better to trade intensively for a short time than to trade more modestly over a longer period as you can often pick up odd bits of rubber at 1-1 at other times.
6. Always have 1-1 rubber trades set up to acquire any surplus that appears. You will have a long period in 1936 where you should be able to maximise rubber reserves. If you trade intensively you should even be able to get an extra 10,000 stored in East Prussia. There should then be another period later on nearer to the war although this does vary a bit.
7. Always run down your coal stocks just before Anschluss and the end of Czechoslovakia as you acquire major stocks in both events.
8. Aim to have maximum stocks of all non-coal resources just before you DOW. Remember that East Prussian stockpiles will merge shortly after the invasion of Poland and therefore it is quite possible to waste stocks by having too much.
It doesn't matter if you have low coal stocks, you have an internal surplus and it is the most common stockpiled resource to capture.