Trading, Convoys and Trade Embargos

[Makeyourownmind]

Trading thousends of tons per day is a nice feature, but it astounded me to what extend I can trade in peace and on what convoys I can fall back on in war. I would like to see that trade uses up convoys (maybe as an extra slider in the trade menue, where you can adjust how much of the necessary convoys each of the involved countrys uses up - of course, they are used both ways, since they are not driving back empty).

Trading far away makes you use up more convoys, and thats good.
Maybe trading landbased through a third country enables a new diplomatic option, the "trade embargo". Using up TC in that country is to complex.

And if you could trade consumer goods, too, it would be astounding.

The other suggestion is that trade routes of specific countrys are visible in a mapmode, so you could plan attacks and defense more precisly. Maybe you make this option only available if the attacker has the better naval intelligence.

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Maybe this is something for HoI-III, but even then I would like it.

 

[Bullfrog]

It makes sense to use convoys for trade overseas and TC for neighbors but with TC inevitably maxing out to supply troops and having to create more convoys for just the purpose of trade (at 4IC for 10 convoys) you will find yourself SOL very soon if you need trade for your economy. Playing Italy for instance, already pathetic in resource flow and IC would be horrendous. You need to trade your supplies and money for resources -to many nations- and with your convoys being mostly used already for supplies to Africa you would need to use all available IC to keep making convoys. Especially when war breaks out and the UK is blasting the hell out of them to boot. This would make playing Italy, Australia, Japan and maybe UK just no fun. In my opinion, your idea makes sense and could be utilized into the game but not as is.