[tesco samoa]

Yep the resupply minister will send the fleet back. This is due to some of the sharing properties of the fleet. ( Not an equal sharing ).

Say you have 3 ships (current supply / total supply)
500/900
600/900
300/700

Total fleet supplies is 1400/2500.
Not enough to send the fleet back since it is >50% but as the minister checks each ship it notices that the 3rd ship in the fleet has <50% so it sends the ship back to resupply. And since ships will not break fleet formation, all orders are overridden by the supply minister and resupply at nearest base becomes the order.

I never use that minister. Real pain in the you know what.

The only way around this is to turn off the minister

or disable minister control on the ships that are below the 50% threshold.

Also watch out for the minister that likes to upgrade ships at the worst possible moments.

I turn all ministers off.

Do not like any of them.