how do you increase ships range?

[Chozer]

i need to reach US as japan and i have haiwaii but my ships cant reach, and obv i cant ask somone nearby since all of america is with the allies. is there no upgrade to increase the range?

[drewbstar]

-Use different ships
-Use a different naval designer

What's the composition of your fleet? Which naval designer did you choose?

Not 100% but I'm pretty sure some advisers can give naval range buffs too.

[Chozer]

Originally posted by drewbstar:

-Use different ships
-Use a different naval designer

What's the composition of your fleet? Which naval designer did you choose?

Not 100% but I'm pretty sure some advisers can give naval range buffs too.

what kinda ships?

6 carriers
2battlecruisers
5 heavy cruisers
40 DS.
i have made my DS for anti submarines and to have light damage and my other ships to have alot of fire power to support my carriers.
but i lack range and i dont really know what increases it in the naval designer

[drewbstar]

Originally posted by Chozer:

Originally posted by drewbstar:

-Use different ships
-Use a different naval designer

What's the composition of your fleet? Which naval designer did you choose?

Not 100% but I'm pretty sure some advisers can give naval range buffs too.

what kinda ships?

6 carriers
2battlecruisers
5 heavy cruisers
40 DS

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Ship#Hulls

In short, some types of ships have better ranges than others, and the more advanced they are the better. 1944 Submarines have the best at ~6000 km range. Carriers/Battleships have good range but are expensive and take a long time to make. Cruisers are also okay, if you're late enough in the research.

Classic tactics apply: spam subs. You're Japan, so your torpedos have some nice buffs if you do the Long Lance. You can also do Carriers + Cruisers.

Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, the "Pacific Fleet Designer" also gives big buffs to range (basically 25% to everything you research).

[Mikey]

If you are using the starting fleet of the Imperial Navy you need to detach at the least the destroyers to reach the US west coast.

You individual task forces are limited in range as long as you keep short range vessels in them.

[Kevik70]

I believe the range is calculated based on the various ships that compose a fleet,. Carriers and Battleships have the most range while destroyers have the least. Dropping low range destroyers, especially tier 1 destroyers will actually increase the range that the fleet can reach. Adding additional capital ships can also help add range.

Though dropping all of your escorts might not be the best idea sometimes it's the only way. The Chinese invasion of the US, even with the occupation of Hawaii, needed a quite disproportionate number of capital ships to reach the US West coast.

[Crazed Possum]

Originally posted by Chozer:

i need to reach US as japan and i have haiwaii but my ships cant reach, and obv i cant ask somone nearby since all of america is with the allies. is there no upgrade to increase the range?

I think there's at least one Latin American country that is fascist.

[mark.r.hendrickson]

The best way to increase range is to find allies willing to give you docking rights.