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[Millsy]

How can i simulate coastal defence - think I recall someone suggesting a stationery ship based in a port ?

[Scott Chisholm]

How can i simulate coastal defence - think I recall someone suggesting a stationery ship based in a port ?

Tony will correct me....

Coastal defenses for ports? Each port has as defense rating that is set during campaign development and can be improved upon during the course of the game through infrastructure reinvestment. That rating is used for defense against aerial and ship bombardments, and I believe land assaults.

I'm not sure stationing a ship in a port will work; I haven't tried that, but I'm pretty sure I know what would happen if one did. However, that's a game engine question that I will defer to Tony. :o

[tony_glazebrook]

Tony will correct me....

Coastal defenses for ports? Each port has as defense rating that is set during campaign development and can be improved upon during the course of the game through infrastructure reinvestment. That rating is used for defense against aerial and ship bombardments, and I believe land assaults.

I'm not sure stationing a ship in a port will work; I haven't tried that, but I'm pretty sure I know what would happen if one did. However, that's a game engine question that I will defer to Tony. :o

As Scott said, port infrastructure levels includes a rating for defences, which includes batteries that can fire on enemy ships in bombardment range.

Ships in a port being bombarded do also fireback but a bit innefectively - their fire control is assumed to be hampered.

[Millsy]

My thought was based on the fact that at one time Erebus (British 15"" monitor) had been penciled in to be the guardship at Cape Town.

Not only that but in my AH i was looking to close the dover straits and thought that a stationary BB or Monitor was the best substutite for the Wanstone Battery ( 2 x 15").

Appreciate that the dover straits are somewhat unique - not many waterways which are only 40km wide.

Some may argue that with speeds of less than 10kn that the monitors were almost stationary anyway (guess who has just read Ian Buxton's 'Big Gun Monitors')

[Ed Rotondaro]

My thought was based on the fact that at one time Erebus (British 15"" monitor) had been penciled in to be the guardship at Cape Town.

Not only that but in my AH i was looking to close the dover straits and thought that a stationary BB or Monitor was the best substutite for the Wanstone Battery ( 2 x 15").

Appreciate that the dover straits are somewhat unique - not many waterways which are only 40km wide.

Some may argue that with speeds of less than 10kn that the monitors were almost stationary anyway (guess who has just read Ian Buxton's 'Big Gun Monitors')

Hi:

That is an interesting thought, using a ship as part of the port's defenses, but outside of the Germans use of Gneisenau as a block ship I can't recall it being done. I've got Buxton's book on order.

[Christian Schwietzke]

Hi:

That is an interesting thought, using a ship as part of the port's defenses, but outside of the Germans use of Gneisenau as a block ship I can't recall it being done. I've got Buxton's book on order.

I think the Soviets used what was left of Marat that way in Leningrad. At least, they did so after the Germans wrecked the ship.