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PRINCE RUPERT

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Where does the fuel go from this place???

I followed Kull's suggestion and have some AKLx and patrol craft escorts based here and use it as a staging point for small supply convoys to other points in Canada and Alaska. NOT a whole lot of fuel being burned by ships. BUT fuel seems to vanish. I have two three convoys from Seattle and/or San Francisco, dump 30,000 or more fuel and two days later it is back under 10,000. Where is it going? It isn't going into fueling ships.
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What's the date? Fuel early on jiggers around until it settles out to a low roar. In early 1943 I have 920,000 fuel there and I haven't shipped in a drop. It's on a rail line. All will be well.
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Also, if you don't want it to flow anywhere else, be sure to set fuel at Prince Rupert to "stockpile". n
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I'm in June 1943 and it still flows away.

I'll look for the stockpile button for fuel. Supplies I see one, I'll need to poke around for fuel.
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ORIGINAL: wegman58

I'm in June 1943 and it still flows away.

I'll look for the stockpile button for fuel. Supplies I see one, I'll need to poke around for fuel.
Fuel and Supply flow to the largest port (after local demands have been satisfied). You should have built PR up to max port level by now, but if you are not using fuel and supply (including shipping it out) at least twice a week it will tend to go to Vancouver or Seattle.
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Fuel and Supply flow to the largest port (after local demands have been satisfied). You should have built PR up to max port level by now, but if you are not using fuel and supply (including shipping it out) at least twice a week it will tend to go to Vancouver or Seattle.

Fair points. I build up every North American base to max as soon as I can (for VP.) I also operate ASW out of Prince Rupert, so there's always at least a trickle of fuel usage. But a million fuel sitting there is normal. In my Lokasenna game, by late 1944 there was far more, plus about 13 million supply.
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Set Rupert as homebase for your CV and BB TFs for some turns and fuel will come. Better do it when those TFs are not near the enemy of course, so as not to complicate retreating vectors and TF fuel calculation. Large merchant fleets are also nice to use as remote fuel magnets
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I have never had any problem getting supply and fuel to Port Rupert. I do send the Canadian HQ there and that helps the supply movement.
I also send a some small xAKL and xAPs there with AM and KV escorts to get fuel to move there. Of course I do build it to the maximum
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I found the stockpile button and the fuel is no longer going down (I'd been using the supply quantity slider for everywhere else, this was the first time I had a fuel problem).

Supply was never a problem. And I am building the place up, but didn't move a lot of engineers there.

I have a fairly stable front so I'm doing the June 1943 updates to everything so not a lot of fuel going there right now - most of the west coast tankers are in the shop.
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I found the stockpile button and the fuel is no longer going down (I'd been using the supply quantity slider for everywhere else, this was the first time I had a fuel problem).

Supply was never a problem. And I am building the place up, but didn't move a lot of engineers there.

I have a fairly stable front so I'm doing the June 1943 updates to everything so not a lot of fuel going there right now - most of the west coast tankers are in the shop.
You don't need all those Canadian BFs at all those Canadian bases if you are not supporting aircraft training there. I ship them all to PR to build the base, then decide where to send them afterwards. Some usually get reassigned to NorPac and to the Aleutians.
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My 'house rule' is that Canadian units cannot be deployed outside of Canada unless their militia squads have upgraded to infantry, simulating the 'conscription crisis' and the pledge by PM King not to deploy conscripted troops overseas. I usually deploy the Canadian base forces to the Canadian coast and to the USA.
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ORIGINAL: Flicker

My 'house rule' is that Canadian units cannot be deployed outside of Canada unless their militia squads have upgraded to infantry, simulating the 'conscription crisis' and the pledge by PM King not to deploy conscripted troops overseas. I usually deploy the Canadian base forces to the Canadian coast and to the USA.

Thank you.
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