Area 21 · Act 4 · The Eastern Front
The Darling Downs Grain Rebellion
Darling Downs around Toowoomba and Dalby — rolling black-soil wheat and sorghum plains atop the Great Dividing Range escarpment, dotted with grain silos and rail sidings
DAY 155: THE DOWNS REPORT AN ABUNDANCE OF GRAIN AND A SHORTAGE OF DIGNITY.
The history behind it
Queensland's richest grain belt, where 1930s graziers genuinely lobbied for emu and marsupial bounties; here the Downs Pastoralists' League has declared its own private 'Second Emu War' after Canberra's refusal, hiring militia with bounty money
Outposts (4)
Take all of them and the area is yours. Retreat halfway through and the ones you already hold stay held.
Dalby Bounty Office
Grain silo · Defence tier 2
Pastoralists' League HQ paying a shilling per beak. Rifleman Lines on the verandah, a Sandbag Officer tallying bounties behind a desk of sandbagged ledgers.
Silo Ridge Gun-Post
Gun post · Defence tier 3
A Lewis Gun Post mounted atop a concrete grain silo, sweeping the black-soil flats. Barbed Wire funnels the approach between two full feed bins — cruel bait.
Toowoomba Range Rail-Siding
Rail siding · Defence tier 3
Supply siding at the escarpment top feeding the whole private war. A Truck-Mounted Lewis patrols the yard; peck the tyres, strand it among the wheat wagons.
Jondaryan Wool Depot
Supply depot · Defence tier 2
Historic woolshed converted to munitions store, defended by a Cavalry Patrol that charges down the shearing lanes. Capturing it drops premium Scrap.