Urumchi

[Gratch1111]

So got it a few turns back and the oil and fuel is actually rising more than the production while set on no on all accounts. Looked into it and lots of posts saying its hard to move the fuel and oil out, while it doesnt seem impossible, no one is actually saying how to best do it.

Any advice?

[RangerJoe]

It depends upon which side you are playing, when it is in the game, and what assets that you have available.

[Platoonist]

So got it a few turns back and the oil and fuel is actually rising more than the production while set on no on all accounts. Looked into it and lots of posts saying its hard to move the fuel and oil out, while it doesnt seem impossible, no one is actually saying how to best do it.

Any advice?

If playing as Japan, try sending some tankers to the river port at Hankow to create some regional demand which might draw it down.

[RangerJoe]

So got it a few turns back and the oil and fuel is actually rising more than the production while set on no on all accounts. Looked into it and lots of posts saying its hard to move the fuel and oil out, while it doesnt seem impossible, no one is actually saying how to best do it.

Any advice?

If playing as Japan, try sending some tankers to the river port at Hankow to create some regional demand which might draw it down.

Don't forget to adjust your stockpile spinners and having at least one large TF to have its home there as well to encourage the demand. Also load any oil there as well, priming the pump as needed.

[Platoonist]

Don't forget to adjust your stockpile spinners and having at least one large TF to have its home there as well to encourage the demand. Also load any oil there as well, priming the pump as needed.

Yes. Setting a base as home port will increase the 'need' of that port so fuel will start to move there based on the number of ships assigned to that base. However, I don't think any Japanese player can ever anticipate fuel moving from Urumchi quickly or in vast quantities. Obviously, there were no oil pipelines in China in the 1940s and the overland transport link between Urumchi and coastal China is long and lousy.

[RangerJoe]

Don't forget to adjust your stockpile spinners and having at least one large TF to have its home there as well to encourage the demand. Also load any oil there as well, priming the pump as needed.

Yes. Setting a base as home port will increase the 'need' of that port so fuel will start to move there based on the number of ships assigned to that base. However, I don't think any Japanese player can ever anticipate fuel moving from Urumchi quickly or in vast quantities. Obviously, there were no oil pipelines in China in the 1940s and the overland transport link between Urumchi and coastal China is long and lousy.

That is why you adjust the stockpile spinners so no easier source of fuel can flow there. If you dump a small tanker load of oil there, then have two tankers in a CS convoy for oil you may be able to pull oil out of there as well.

[Gratch1111]

Thanks for the answers, sorry for putting the question in the wrong place