A first time for everything.

[JeffroK]

I dont know how many games or how many thousands of turns I have played and I got surprised by the AI.

In July 1942 I was woken from my mindless trawl through the slow years for the Allies by a combat message, the Japanese had landed at Carnarvon, Western Australia !!!!!!! (This is Scen 1)

One of my house rules is to keep reasonable garrisons throughout the war so I had 10 LH Rgt there as well as the base force and 13 Bde in Geraldton so the IJA isnt going anywhere and there is a lot of Armour entraining for West Australia.

Its good to have these surprises, makes up for me still holding Sumatra and only losing Singapore & Batavia in April 42

[BBfanboy]

Interesting! I usually have all my attention on PM and Darwin in 1942, not NW Oz. Something to keep in mind for my next go-round.

[Yaab]

Hope you take some Jap POWs, the POWs escape, they get hold of some Oz wild camels and we can finally read an AAR about Akira of Nullarbor.

[pnzrgnral]

I've played campaign games beyond count and was surprised a few years ago when the AI surprised me the same way, by conducting a Jap amphib assault on Carnarvon (it may have been a base further south in w. Austr., but you get the gist). The AI took the base - all that was there was the base force - but was crushed in relatively short order. Ever since then I've had to garrison w. Austr. (apologies to our cousins Down Under but I can never remember Australian state names!), and based upon a War Room "is this gamey" post, I've garrisoned Portland OR and other US west coast bases, JUST IN CASE!

[RangerJoe]

One thing to do is to remove all of the AI scripts except one, switch it to a different script for the next try.

[CaptBeefheart]

I've done a few Ironman games and a landing in NW Oz seems to occur more often than not. There are a few other surprises which I won't go into.

Cheers,
CB

[BBfanboy]

I've done a few Ironman games and a landing in NW Oz seems to occur more often than not. There are a few other surprises which I won't go into.

Cheers,
CB

Oh, let me guess. You met a gorgeous person at Raffles bar in Singapore and she turned out to be a Ladyboy? I wouldn't go into that either.

[RangerJoe]

I've done a few Ironman games and a landing in NW Oz seems to occur more often than not. There are a few other surprises which I won't go into.

Cheers,
CB

Oh, let me guess. You met a gorgeous person at Raffles bar in Singapore and she turned out to be a Ladyboy? I wouldn't go into that either.

Lola . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xA6sH9kkQ

[CaptBeefheart]

I've done a few Ironman games and a landing in NW Oz seems to occur more often than not. There are a few other surprises which I won't go into.

Cheers,
CB

Oh, let me guess. You met a gorgeous person at Raffles bar in Singapore and she turned out to be a Ladyboy? I wouldn't go into that either.

Heh.