Coastal bombardment

[kviiri]

Can ships act as gunboats and deal damage to enemy units or structures on land through coastal bombardment?

 

[Vidkjaer]

Most likely they will, as they did in HOI3, provide a bonus for your combat efficiency on land (actually it was a penalty for your enemy). It was a maximum of 25% in HOI3.

 

[ok2useLane]

There are several missions available:
Patrol - Focus on finding the enemy as efficiently and as spread out as possible
Search & Destroy - Much like Patrol but less efficient at searching while keeping the fleet together more. Suitable for trying to force large fleet vs fleet battles, say like the Battle of Midway.
Convoy Raiding - Focus on raiding convoys and avoid engaging warships.
Convoy Escort - Protect any convoys in an area from raiders.
Invasion - used to control large scale land invasions. We'll cover this in later diaries.
Hold - Not really a mission, but can be useful for ships like Carriers that you want to just position like a floating airfield...

I believe this would be part of the "Invasion" mission. Furthermore, I'd be surprised (disappointed) if this wasn't a game feature.

 

[Mannstien]

Actually, if you look at ship stat's there is a Naval Bombardment statistic, however this only affected battles in an adjacent land province/provinces to the ship's position in HOI3. Whether or not it you will be able to specifically target buildings in the province or if they would also be bombarded would be something new and I think we'll need to wait for the Invasion DD to find out but it sounds really cool.

 

[Giovanni1234]

I hope they will... An American pacific campaign without bombardment Iwo Jima would be very sadly