Oversea trade blocked! Please help.

[joeenochs]

I am playing the Sowjet Union in the 1941 scenario and the oversea trade is totally blocked! I have enough transports and escorts. Sometimes the block goes away but I don't see a pattern. I thought maybe the block is by enemy ships so I leave port with my fleet. But without any idea where the block is it is hard. Who would block the route from Vladiwostok to Los Angeles? I am not in a war with Japan.

Edit: I am playing 1.4. I already wanted to post this in the bug forum but maybe you have an idea.

 

[Lyrecryer]

check the Supplies view tab under the mini-map. The Purple spots are where your convoy is going and red spots are where, due to the number of ships, refuse to go. it can happen both ways. Japan might be blockading USA and your feeling the effects of it.

 

[joeenochs]

Thanks.

Yes, indeed, Leningrad is red, but not so Vladiwostok or any other province in the Pacific

The US is not yet at war with Japan so it can't be that. Also I have the same problem with Brasil etc.

I more and more think it is a bug maybe due to the fact, that Leningrad is blocked.

Edit: I have a convoy to Sweden for metal which is losing transports to German subs so I cancelled it.
This is why the area around Leningrad is red. But at least the convoy was operating and I can initiate new trades with Sweden fine.

 

[Lyrecryer]

Leningrad must have been blocked so send a naval unit there.

 

[joeenochs]

Yes, the Leningrad area is full of German subs. Maybe it is connected to that but it would be a bug I think.

It seems when I switch on auto convoys and switch off auto trade and then cancel my sea trade with Sweden to avoid the German subs, then after some time the block goes away.

 

[cincpac]

Blockades

We forget that some actions in AOD is from history itself the events that occurred during certain timelines in WWII so if germans are sinking transports it's because it has orders to sink convoys leading and coming from certain countries and if you know a little history the germans killed the soviet fleets in the norway area and sunk all but axis ships & convoys even the british had problems there.



"Battlestations gentlemen we go in harm's way"

 

[joeenochs]

We forget that some actions in AOD is from history itself the events that occurred during certain timelines in WWII so if germans are sinking transports it's because it has orders to sink convoys leading and coming from certain countries and if you know a little history the germans killed the soviet fleets in the norway area and sunk all but axis ships & convoys even the british had problems there.

"Battlestations gentlemen we go in harm's way"

Yes, I like the aggresive German fleet, but the trade block should be for the Baltic Sea then only and not for the Pacific as well.

Anyway, I have a land connection to Sweden through Finnland now and my metal supply is flowing. Meanwhile my convoys bring energy from the US without any loss.

 

[elbasto]

If the Germans took control of Norway and Denmark, then no ships can reach the Atlantic Leningrad.

Try cancelling those trade deals and starting new ones which should go through Murmansk/Arkhangelsk.

 

[Acheron]

So manually created convoys from, say, Vladivostock to Los Angles should be fine? Okay, but I have no clue how to properly (!) create convoys for trade.