SB's firing on map rooms -1

[Scotty55OEFVet]

Coastal guns were used not only for engaging ships during any amphibious assault....this is 100% correct. But, Shore Batteries were also used to to repel the invading troops, armor, etc while landing and then crossing the beach to their objectives. Case in point, D-Day. Yes, the Germans had batteries of large calibre cannon to duel the big ships in the Channel. Some of them were also sighted on the beach flat itself to provide grazing and plunging fire onto the advancing Allies as they made there way onshore. So, while I agree with Bruv that it sucks to have a goon/M3 sitting at the Map Room ready to disembark those waiting troops for that all important base take, only to be disintegrated by a 5" shell, those SB's did in fact at many times fire on troops and vehicle's trying to take that objective.

So, not a -10, but a -1 

[tunnelrat]

If we want to get all "real life" with this, then those SB guns would turn the entire town into an unusable crater in short order.

Send shovels with your troops, so they can excavate the map room!

From a GAMEPLAY standpoint, having such a fortified stronghold capable of just robotic lobbing shells into the same area repeatedly, for area denial, is lame.

The other big problem with the way SBs are used is that coastal defenses dedicated to defense against naval attack (such as shore batteries) were armed with armor-piercing rounds to take on ships, not high explosive anti-personnel rounds to deal with area targets.

Also: Shore Batteries would indeed fire on any enemies they could, but many dedicated coastal defenses were not capable of traversing and/or depressing far enough to reach targets that close.

See: Singapore.

[Ack-Ack]

Also: Shore Batteries would indeed fire on any enemies they could, but many dedicated coastal defenses were not capable of traversing and/or depressing far enough to reach targets that close.

See: Singapore.

Using Singapore as an example is a bad one.  The Japanese approached Singapore from inland, completely bypassing Singapore's coastal defenses, which made the large British shore batteries useless in Singapore's defense.   

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