Foreign tonnage

[owe166]

So as a break from the various store and game purchase threads, how about a help a noob thread.

Anyone here know how to royal navy well? Im pretty damn confused on how to keep my Foreign tonnage demand in check. Bunch of my navy is stuck overseas and very few months a big read negative tonnage shows up, after being previously pleased last month (Damn trading companies). Already got a Cheapish colonial service CA in production, but any tips beyond that?

[dorn]

May 17, 2019 23:47:05 GMT -6 owe166 said:

So as a break from the various store and game purchase threads, how about a help a noob thread.

Anyone here know how to royal navy well? Im pretty damn confused on how to keep my Foreign tonnage demand in check. Bunch of my navy is stuck overseas and very few months a big read negative tonnage shows up, after being previously pleased last month (Damn trading companies). Already got a Cheapish colonial service CA in production, but any tips beyond that?

This is issue at 1920 start. Frankly speaking UK fleet is too small compared to others. And their fleet has too much cramped accomodation and short range.

The solution is to use all cruisers in 1920 and some battleships. Scrap some ships and start building new cruisers with colonial service.

[JagdFlanker]

don't be afraid to assign ships to 'foreign station' to cover your colonies until you get your navy in order - because invasion range is so short i doubt it's possible your colonies can get invaded until later in the game so physically assigning ships to guard them is likely not necessary until that time

you can even try assigning short range ships for that - worked in RtW1, might still work and gives them a use

[fleet5]

Put trash ships to foreign station in the right click menu untill you get a clearer view of what you want to do with the navy.

[dorn]

I remember that there were somewhere written that ships over certain tonnage will not count on foreign stations fully. I cannot find it. What is the limit?

[swang]

6000 tons. However, a 6k ship with a Colonial Service component still counts 7500. So the limit seems to be based on actual tonnage, not effective tonnage.