(Coastal) Defense

[Jon Shafer]

Yet another question from one who is of the ignorant masses.

How is coastal defense usually handled? I know that creating and maintaining a front is probably a smart idea (don't want those divisions to sneak by... bad situation), but what about defense from seaborne invasion? It seems kind of... wasteful and tedious to guard each coastal province with a division, so how do the betaz0idz usually handle this situation?

 

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by AncientPharaoh
I usually make some extra medium range subs and station them out along the coast, to warn me of incoming fleets. Then send my real fleets out to 'greet' them.

What if you don't have a fleet? (Like Germany in 1944)

 

[Jon Shafer]

What about how the actual war went? The Allies landed on Normandy, no subs, air power, panzer divisions weren't released (due to Hitler's orders), yet the Allies got stuck there for a very long time. Certainly that wouldn't be represented by the Germans having a division or more on every coastal tile?

I'm not talking about how to stop an invasion before they land, but how once they do (for purposes of historical representation, and lack of other options).

 

[Jon Shafer]

Only a half dozen?

Now that seems a little extreme...

 

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Dan Cook
Normandy?

That's Caen.

 

[Jon Shafer]

Correct. The eastern 'wing' of what would be the Cherbourg province would be Utah. So those two provinces are basically the makeup of Normandy.

But mostly Caen.