Of the use of coal to build ships

Hello everyone,


I recently asked myself why battleships and cruisers need coal to be built ? At that time the majority of ships used coal and as such wouldn't it be better if this ressource was needed to build them instead of oil ?


I think this could be a good change because it would make coal a much more strategic ressource (a part from building railroads nothing can be done with it.).

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Coal can be used to supplement the other energy resources like Oil and Gas by using your resource slider , most maps are started with setting oil consumption to zero and going red in coal/gas because they are cheaper to purchase on stock market than oil which soon rises in value per unit in comparison


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Yes you are right, oil is the most important energy ressource.


But this is why I also asked if coal could be used to build BB and LC instead of oil.

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