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many Railway lines (in Australia) end in a hex with no base . what is the purpose of them?
you cant seem to move troops on trains to them or pick up troops?

They would also act like a trail for movement.

They are historical railways that go to places where something is produced. It could be minerals, but the dev choose not to add a base there, or it could be a center for shipping say cattle but since food is not a resource in WiTP:AE, the base was not necessary.
There are mods that added bases at the end of them with a few points of resources, or more than a few, as per whatever the mod creator decided.

By the way are Rauilway lines something new in the game?

Never heard of Rauilway lines in any war game before.

Zovs wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:13 pm By the way are Rauilway lines something new in the game?

Never heard of Rauilway lines in any war game before.

Hey DAT, Rauilways lines are railway lines!

HMSDevonshire wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 5:56 pm what is the purpose of them?

Future sites for Outback restaurants? Mad Max movie shooting locations? I figure if these remote locations ever come under threat of Japanese encroachment it's game over.

Platoonist wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:19 pm

HMSDevonshire wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 5:56 pm what is the purpose of them?

Future sites for Outback restaurants? Mad Max movie shooting locations? I figure if these remote locations ever come under threat of Japanese encroachment it's game over.

Probably a place to load livestock and/or where the line was not yet finished.

RangerJoe wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:22 pm
Probably a place to load livestock and/or where the line was not yet finished.

There is a similar line on the map that goes north towards where the town of Yellowknife, Canada is located nowadays on the Great Slave Lake. But in 1941 it was just a remote gold mining camp, so probably the same sort of thing. Low level resource extraction and prospecting going on. Waiting for the line to be finished when the war ends and become a boom-town.

The development team ran out of time. In the new update many of those bases get added. So be happy ....GP

btd64 wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 1:21 am The development team ran out of time. In the new update many of those bases get added. So be happy ....GP

End of an era. I'll miss going out and shooting the signs up with buckshot.

Zovs wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:13 pm By the way are Rauilway lines something new in the game?

Never heard of Rauilway lines in any war game before.

Must be a tuping error.