coastal fort or land fort?

[Czesio]

Can you guys help me with following problem? Playing as Italy I want to protect myself from possible Allied invasion of Sicily. I want to build a static defenses on the strait, defending the Italian mainland.
My problem is? When defending against land-based attack across the strait coming from Sicily, would my army actually use land forts or coastal forts for defence?
I reckon that coastal forts are most logical choice, bur I have doubts whether the game model recognises attack across the strait as a sea-borne invasion (coastal fort would provide bonus to the defender), or a regular land attack, as if a strait was but a big river (land fort would help the defender)

Does anyone actually know the answert to that? Thanks in advance.

 

[Morbid]

coastal forts

 

[GAGA Extrem]

Strait attacks are amphibious assaults, therefore building coastal forts is the correct choise.

 

[Czesio]

Thanks guys, that's what i thought, but had to make sure I wouldn't build a wrong defence!

 

[neonknight_ger]

Imho the distinction between coastal and land fortresses is completely useless for gameplay.

In hoi3, all (land) fortresses are multidirectional - with the exception of those at the coastline, because any assault from a sea province will nullify their effect. To protect from this, player needs to build coastal fortresses which - which are useless against land attacks. This is, besides giving the a big exploit to the player, no big issue in single player games as the ai never tries to surpass them, so it is sufficient to protect your harbors with coastal fortresses. But against a human opponent you ´d have to build both kind of fortification.

It would make sense to distinct between land and coastal fortresses if the later ones would provide additional features serving as coastal batteries firing at nearby enemy fleets similar provincial aa vs. airwings. In ww2, coastal defences - artillery, mines, torpedo launchers, etc. - turned any approach towards an enemy coast line into a risky adventure (as the Blücher´s crew can tell). I really had expected to see something of this in the game.

 

[Vullgarr]

I build both on the areas I want to truely deffend. I debate on other locations, but if I can aford it I will build both.