ORIGINAL: delatbabel
I concur with Christo's comments about the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia -- desert hexes along the Great Australian Bight. I have sailed as well as driven this area, there are no landing points, the cliffs are up to 200ft high in some places.
Well, not much can be done here, there is no terrain in WiF that prevents invasions.
The unlabelled river that runs around the outside of the Sydney hex (yes it really does that) is the Hawkesbury / Nepean. It was originally thought to be two separate rivers, one to the north and one to the west and south west, until some explorer discovered that they actually join up.
OK. I add the name.
I concur with the comment about Lakes Entrance in Victoria being a swamp hex. It is quite a hazardous entry even for small boats.
Are you talking about the Victoria River, south of Darwin ?
I would discard the Ipswich river south of Brisbane, it is not a significant waterway (it's a small creek, really) which is why you're not finding it on maps. The Brisbane River runs through the middle of Brisbane from the bay that is shown there (Moreton Bay) and should be placed on the NE hexside of the hex containing Brisbane, and then following the line that you have drawn for the Ipswich river. It is navigable by shipping along some of its length.
Here, as for Perth, I think that the Brisbane river goes through the city, and that the designer decided that it would be represented as an obstacle to the entry in the city from the south and the east. From this map, I think that this is OK as it is. The scale of the map don't allow to place the Brisbane Mouth exactly where geography placed it.
Brisbane is not a significant port. The approaches to it through Moreton Bay are fairly tricky, and it doesn't have a lot of deep water anchorage or channels. The largest port in Queensland is Gladstone, which is in the mountain hex 2 hexes SE of Airlie Beach / Proserpine (mentioned above).
Here, we are locked in the WiF FE representation of the Area. The designers did put a major port plus supply source on a sea area border, this can't be changed as it has huges game play effects.
The largest port in NSW (and in fact the largest coal port in the world) is Newcastle, which is not marked on the map, but should be in the hex NE of Sydney. This should contain a resource (coal) or possibly two, it has the world's largest coal deposit.
It has all that already. It is only a minor port though, as on the WiF FE map.
The largest port in Western Australia is Port Hedland, which is also not marked on the map. It is approximately 4 or 5 hexes SW along the coast from Broome. Perth is not a port, the nearby port is called Fremantle and it is not as large a port as Port Hedland because of the railway bridge which blocks access to the river (zoom in on these in google maps if you like). I believe that the railway bridge at Fremantle predates the war.
I think we can add it, with its 2 hex railway inland.
It does not change the play in this area. It is not a supply source, as Brooome and Darwin, so add no vital base to Australia.
Steve, does adding Minor Ports pose a problem in regards to saved games or not ?
