kokoda trail question

[chief2000]

Is Desert Rats an acceptable substitute for kokoda trail scenarios or does one have to have Afrika Korps?

[plloyd1010]

Probably. NZ units have the same values. The leadership corps is similar. If you want to make it exact (ish), try the ILS tool.

[Hugmenot]

The Desert Rats New Zealand foot units have the same values as the Afrika Korps Australian foot units.

You can check this by opening both the Afrika Korps page (http://pg-hq.com/library.php?type=game&id=AfKo) and the Desert Rats page (http://pg-hq.com/library.php?type=game&id=DeRa) in separate tabs and expanding the Order of Battle for both.

The game page can be accesses by selecting "Library --> Games" from the left-side menu on the main PG-HQ page.

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You can also verify if the leaders are a close enough match by doing the following. Select "Player Tools --> Impartial Leader Selector" from the left-side menu. This will display the Impartial Leader Selector page.

Right-click on "Afrika Korps" and select "Open link in new tab" to display the "Impartial Leader Selector: Afrika Korps" page. Click "List All AfKo" on the ILS sidebar located on the right-side to display a page listing all the leaders for this game.

Do the same thing for Desert Rats.

You can check if the leaders are close enough in ratings for this to be a non-issue for you.


Hope it helps!

[chief2000]

Thanks so much for the guidance!

[larry marak]

And of course, now that some printed copies of Waltzing Matilda are out there, you can use Australian Militia counters to represent the Militia forces in Kokoda Trail...back when K.T. was printed, it was necessary to substitute Australian Imperial force counters from Africa Korps to represent the militia forces in the initial scenarios :-}