Playing Italy. I was annoyed by Germany's lack of progress against the USSR and UK. Especially when I noticed that the ledger showed the Royal Navy consisting in total of something like 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, and 200 transports. And the British Army consisting of 5 infantry divisions.
So, to make a long story short, Il Duce took matters into his own hands and invaded Britain. Not really wanting to actually hold the territory myself, I puppeted the UK.
When this happened, a lot of uncontrolled British territories went to (Free) France. Including those zero-infrastructure provinces in Egypt - Al Quattara, etc. The French put an air unit in Al Quattara for some reason, weird but not atypical for the AI.
But later, something stranger happened, as a French Infantry division showed up in Alexandria. First of all, I've no idea how it got there (transport that I missed? could they have *built* the thing in the desert?)
Second of all, control of the province didn't change - it was still UK territory. It looked like the game was still acting like France and the UK were allies or something.
Anyhow, I sent transports with 3 Marine divisions to Alexandria. Sailing right into the port worked, and then battle occurred. During the battle, however, my units were assessed the "amphibious landing" penalty according to the battle screen. Not sure if that part is bug or WAD, since the situation probably shouldn't ever happen in the first place....
So, to make a long story short, Il Duce took matters into his own hands and invaded Britain. Not really wanting to actually hold the territory myself, I puppeted the UK.
When this happened, a lot of uncontrolled British territories went to (Free) France. Including those zero-infrastructure provinces in Egypt - Al Quattara, etc. The French put an air unit in Al Quattara for some reason, weird but not atypical for the AI.
But later, something stranger happened, as a French Infantry division showed up in Alexandria. First of all, I've no idea how it got there (transport that I missed? could they have *built* the thing in the desert?)
Second of all, control of the province didn't change - it was still UK territory. It looked like the game was still acting like France and the UK were allies or something.
Anyhow, I sent transports with 3 Marine divisions to Alexandria. Sailing right into the port worked, and then battle occurred. During the battle, however, my units were assessed the "amphibious landing" penalty according to the battle screen. Not sure if that part is bug or WAD, since the situation probably shouldn't ever happen in the first place....
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