Lend Lease Issue to USSR

[Ricka the Rekka]

So in my game Axis are beating the Soviets pretty bad, I'm UK and I'm leasing Soviets but the route for supply is at Lenningrad. The issue is when put the cursor over the my flag to show lease efficiency a whole load of my equipment is being sunk in the baltic sea.

Obviously this is Russian convoys so I can't set the sea zone to not go through that area and route to another port.

Am I basically stuck until Soviets lose Lenningrad or can you some how make a route?

 

[Riekopo]

I've had this same problem and it really annoys me. Lend Lease needs more work. The Baltic Sea was frozen I think first of all. Soviet fleet was stuck in port. And then Finland pulled a net across the whole thing and submarines couldn't pass it at all. Maybe not ships either.

We need to be able to use our own Convoys for Lend Lease. And we need to be able to choose the routes. And split the routes up if we want. In real life there were 3 Lend Lease routes to the USSR. The one in the north Arctic around Norway. The one over land through Iran. And the one from the US west coast through the top of the USSR and Arctic.

 

[Federkiel]

Shouldn't convoys be denied access from the inside of the Baltics to the outside and vice versa if the owner is at war with the owner of Kiel, Copenhagen and Oslo in the first place?

AI should be forced to route it's direct lend lease via Murmansk like in history i think.

And i agree - there should be an option to the spender of lend lease to use his own convoys if he is willing to do so.

 

[Fulmen]

The Baltic Sea was frozen I think first of all. Soviet fleet was stuck in port. And then Finland pulled a net across the whole thing and submarines couldn't pass it at all. Maybe not ships either.

The submarine net was called Walross (Walrus) and was laid down in 1943 by the Germans, not the Finns. It ran from Porkkala, Finland, to Naissaar, Estonia, and stopped Russian submarines from operating in the Baltic Sea. The net was maintained by the Germans as it was their operation, and protected by a large number of constantly patrolling German vessels. Surface ships of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet had already been confined to Kronstadt in 1941 by Finno-German control of both the northern and southern coasts of the Gulf of Finland, combined with minefields, coastal guns and air power.

The Baltic Sea wasn't quite as frozen as you might think: ice breakers were used and shipping continued in mid-winter, though very thick ice did block off many routes for weeks, even months.

 

[Ricka the Rekka]

I agree there should be an option to use your own convoys for lend lease with the risk of being sunk. That way makes it more fair and you can also set your own route.

 

[Meglok]

So in my game Axis are beating the Soviets pretty bad, I'm UK and I'm leasing Soviets but the route for supply is at Lenningrad. The issue is when put the cursor over the my flag to show lease efficiency a whole load of my equipment is being sunk in the baltic sea.

Obviously this is Russian convoys so I can't set the sea zone to not go through that area and route to another port.

Am I basically stuck until Soviets lose Lenningrad or can you some how make a route?

Iirc, German control of the Danish Straits is supposed to block passage of Soviet convoys once they are at war. Assuming Germany captured Denmark I would post a bug report.

 

[Ricka the Rekka]

Germany hasn't captured Denmark yet that could be reason why. I will have to wait and find out when they attack Denmark.

 

[Sayd]

You can just block access for navy/convoys by blocking specific sea area inside Baltic.
F2, clock sea zone, block/avoid.

 

[Riekopo]

You can just block access for navy/convoys by blocking specific sea area inside Baltic.
F2, clock sea zone, block/avoid.

No you can't.

 

[Simon_9732495]

You can just block access for navy/convoys by blocking specific sea area inside Baltic.

That applies only for imports and not for exports. And I think only for incoming Lend Lease not for outgoing Lend Lease.
So I think the country that accepts the LL would have to block the seazones.