Australia Twilight War & After...

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by rcaf_777

My two cents is there is nothing saying that a ANZAC Division could organized and trained and sent somewhere either the middle east or Europe in the later stages???

Just the small conflict with Indonesia which happens to have a much greater manpower than Australia (if somewhat lacking in decent aircraft and ships).
There's also the small matter of Australia only having 2 Divisions total with only about 2/3rds of 1st Division being regular army and the balance made up of reserve units which can have as little as 10% of their full strength.

Originally Posted by Olefin

The attack on Australia seems to be overkill compared to the rest of the nuclear strikes in general.

Umm, what?
This is from the 2.2 BYB

Australia
Australia was largely untouched by the nuclear exchange. but the global panic which followed left its mark on both the cities and outback. Large parts of the countryside are now in anarchy, terrorized, or insular, but the major cities are organized and controlled by the central government. A short war was fought with Indonesia after it invaded Australia's ally, Papua New Guinea.The Indonesian offensive quickly halted, mostly due to logistic collapse but not before a majority of Australia's and Indonesia's modern aircraft and naval vessels had been damaged or destroyed in a series of running aero-naval actions.

The previous comments in this thread I think you'll find are all hypothetical.

Originally Posted by Olefin

I see them as staying neutral initially in the war until and then possibly coming in late, but with Australian contingents of volunteers fighting in Europe, the Middle East and Kenya.

Not likely!
One of the scenarios in Twilight Encounters (What's Polish for G'day) has a small Australian SAS unit and the PC's are supposed to be taken by complete surprise at Australians being anywhere near Europe.
Only one Challenge mag has Australians serving anywhere, and that's just a brief note about a presence in Korea (I've been working on fleshing that out for a while with some difficulty - best unit appears to be the reserve 9th Brigade from 2nd Div after being brought up to strength with fresh recruits). With the situation at home, the limited numbers of troops, and the war with Indonesia, it's just not going to happen that Australians are going to be sent anywhere else. Might be a few freelancers/mercenaries, but don't count on any serving military personnel unless it's the odd individual caught overseas on exchange, on holiday, or deserted.