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The Lakes Entrance hex (The forest/beach hex two to the east of Melbourne) needs to be swamp for reasons I posted earlier in this thread - because the lakes extend practically the full width of the hex's beach just a few hundred metres across the dunes from the beach. I've been there and seen it, and it would be a nightmare place to stage an invasion - you'd beach your landing craft, then immediately have to cross another body of water...

Alice Springs needs to be added as a point of resupply in outback Australia - its importance as a point of supply here is far, far in excess of its listed population. I can't emphasise this enough!

ORIGINAL: amwild
Alice Springs needs to be added as a point of resupply in outback Australia - its importance as a point of supply here is far, far in excess of its listed population. I can't emphasise this enough!

Yes, but.... :

The Lakes Entrance hex (The forest/beach hex two to the east of Melbourne) needs to be swamp for reasons I posted earlier in this thread - because the lakes extend practically the full width of the hex's beach just a few hundred metres across the dunes from the beach. I've been there and seen it, and it would be a nightmare place to stage an invasion - you'd beach your landing craft, then immediately have to cross another body of water...

But, does this makes warrant a swamp hex ?
Opinions, others ? People from Down Under ?

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

For Joey.

This vital, strategic centre is looking ripe for conquest. Or a desperate defence. Or not. [:D]

Cheers, Neilster

I'm sure Goering would order a paradrop on the white poppy fields if he could get in range...

OK, so this falls in the "If someone ever thinks this makes a difference, they're wrong" category -

Is Tasmania supposed to be part of the Australian Home Country?  I'm not sure how the WiF RAW about territory labelling applies in MWiF (esp. wrt map resolution), but you can walk a MAR there from Canberra.

ORIGINAL: doctormm

OK, so this falls in the "If someone ever thinks this makes a difference, they're wrong" category -

Is Tasmania supposed to be part of the Australian Home Country?  I'm not sure how the WiF RAW about territory labelling applies in MWiF (esp. wrt map resolution), but you can walk a MAR there from Canberra.

Yes.

From the West going east:
Fitzroy, Drysdale, Ord, Victoria, daly, east alligator, goomadeer, goyder and the roper (the river with the 2 headstreams).
There are a bucket load of rivers in the goomadeer/ goyder area and I chose the 2 that looked the biggest.

Christo

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The northern part of this was shown before. Does anyone have names for the unlabelled rivers?

ORIGINAL: christo

From the West going east:
Fitzroy, Drysdale, Ord, Victoria, daly, east alligator, goomadeer, goyder and the roper (the river with the 2 headstreams).
There are a bucket load of rivers in the goomadeer/ goyder area and I chose the 2 that looked the biggest.

Christo

Thanks.

East Alligator, a favorite place for kids to swim, I assume.

Thanks.

East Alligator, a favorite place for kids to swim, I assume.

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You seriously do not want to go swimming up here. There are no alligators but there are crocodiles. "Fresh water crocs" are ok but the "Salt water crocs" (Crocodylus porosus) are very nasty. Every few months there are stories of tourists who go swimming where they shouldn't or even go too close to the water/ river bank and then become croc bait.. To make it even more difficult the salties are not confines to salt water and definately inhabit the fresh water river system. The largest one ever known was shot in 1957. It was 8.63 meters (28.3 feet) long and weighed over 2000 kg (4400 lb). Bloody big.

christo

I don't know if the rivers are too small to warrant names but they are... (west to east again)

-Glenelg (near Portland)
-Mitchell (near melbourne)
-Snowy (from Kosciuszko) note the spelling

Christo

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Rob has been busy. These are first passes without modifications to the map data files. So the raillines that run over water will be tweaked to keep them dry.

also it is kangaroo island not kangooroo

The cliffs along this coast (at least the beach/ desert portion) are over 20 meters tall and run in a continuous line for over 1000 km. No way in hell that anyone could possibly invade (not that all that desert isn't appealing).

Christo

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Speaking of dry, this is one big beach!

anticlockwise from the north

Yarra river
Blackwood river
? Pallinup river

Christo

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Australia, SW.

Fortescue river runs from the hamersley range

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It's not really clear to me where one desert ends and the next one starts. Sand is sand, isn't it?

ORIGINAL: christo
anticlockwise from the north

Yarra river
Blackwood river
? Pallinup river

Isn't the River north of Perth the Swan River (not the Yarra) ?

ORIGINAL: christo
Fortescue river runs from the hamersley range

Isn't it rather Ashburton ? I've got a map with both the Ashburton and Fortescue, and another with only Ashburton.
I put Ashburton on the map, would it be ok ?

What are the mountains names in the north, where the Fitzroy and Ord seem to come from ?

whoops, brain fart sorry

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: christo
anticlockwise from the north

Yarra river
Blackwood river
? Pallinup river

Isn't the River north of Perth the Swan River (not the Yarra) ?

As it seem that you (Cristo) knows some Australian Geography, could you confirm me these :
Am I right to write those things :

- The railway that goes west from Townsville (and ends at the Resource), ends at Mount Isa. That is, the resource is at Mount Isa (a city / Town / Village ?).

- The railway that goes west from Brisbane, ends at Charleville.

- The resource near the west bank of the Murray River, is at Broken Hill.

- The railway that goes north and then east from Perth, ends at Meekatharra, in the Hamersley Range.

Thanks a lot for the Rivers names. I had found some, but you helped filling the blanks.
There are a couple nameless rivers between Townsville & Brisbane.