Emergency Reinforcements--Tasmania

[undercovergeek]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

being the Japanese im unfamilar with off map arrivals and their routes to 'on map' - if the majority of the LCUs arrive at cape town, how long does it take to get to Oz from Capetwon and where on the playable map do they appear - and is it considered gamey and unfair to park the KB in the vicinity?

The time is going to depend on the speed of the ship. To get from CT to the the exit from the transit zone (shaded box on map edge) might be circa 8-14 days more or less for merchants.

I wouldn't consider parking the KB anyplace on the map deep enough for it to go to be gamey, but that's me. Opinions differ. However, realize that fuel will be a concern waaaay over there by the wormhole exit points, and you can't really patrol all of the possibilities for the CT to Perth route due to the size of the transit zone (from 4,12 to 4, 175 per Section 4.2.4.4.1) If your opponent uses Direct routing they will dump out at 4, 147, but if he suspects you are waiting to pounce he can route them from CT to exit anywhere on the zone's eastern edge, and accept a longer at-risk transit to Perth.

Perth is mine - there is no west coast Oz base until he gets to adelaide - unless of course he invades with the reinforcements - are they in full supply or do they need some TLC before theyre sent out after disembarking? the only places unless they are used as an invasion force are Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane but id give Bris 4 days before its mine!

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

Perth is mine - there is no west coast Oz base until he gets to adelaide - unless of course he invades with the reinforcements - are they in full supply or do they need some TLC before theyre sent out after disembarking? the only places unless they are used as an invasion force are Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane but id give Bris 4 days before its mine!

Look at the beginning of this thread. I posted screen shots of each LCU in the package. If you squint you can see the Exp and other troop stats, as well as the COs.

If this is the geo-political state he faces he might as well not pull them east from CT (he could hop them up to the Mid-east mostly off-map and then south, but that's probably no better for him if he's lost half of Oz.)

He could fetch them from CT and haul them to the Canal Zone, then deploy east-to-west as any US LCU would do. Takes a lot longer, but it sounds like the IO is a Japanese lake for him, and it's a long way to Adelaide from the exit wormhole from CT.

[undercovergeek]

thanks BW - i think youve made my mind up - its time to take OZ

[ny59giants]

Looks like I will be needing this information in my current game. Since it doesn't happen often, I've had Australia invaded in force.