i did some more work yesterday, pretty much finishing off the dutch indies. so i move south from there and head to australia which leads to a few issues to resolve going forward.
primary issue is how to represent the US in Australia? the northeast part of the continent was loaded with american personnel and equipment. the easiest option imo is to give the yanks a city or two in that northeastern corner, cairns perhaps and maybe townsville? they were major US bases and the first push against the japanese was conducted from here (against targets in the solomans iirc).
i am always hesitant to soil the geographical integrity of a continent by placing cities from far away civs on it. but australia may be an exception here...since history says that part was used by US forces and the fact that the continent is so damn big (on the biq file). iow, there is a lot of room on this map to place a few USA cities down under
and preserve australian integrity.
another issue i've been grappling with is the fact the McArthur was commander of all forces in the sw pacific. this included australian forces that were under his charge. i read that McArthur wouldn't allow US forces to be led by Australian officers. fair enough. so this lends to the question: should Australia be rolled into the US position? i am leaning towards not doing this for obvious reasons. i think the few US cities on the continent down there will suffice. thoughts?
another option for those that wish to see
more civs instead of less is to split apart the commonwealth civs and make each one its own. so it would be Australia, NZ, British India, Canada. not sure i want to go this route but thought i'd put it out there. comments appreciated