D-Day - The German Naval Counterattack

[Riekopo]

The story of the German Navy's attempts to interfere with D-Day from gunboats to E-Boats, which culminated in a 4-ship destroyer raid against the landing areas on 9 June 1944 and a big naval battle off the coast of Brittany.

Would be nice to be able to attack landings like this in HOI4.

 

[Zauberelefant]

The story of the German Navy's attempts to interfere with D-Day from gunboats to E-Boats, which culminated in a 4-ship destroyer raid against the landing areas on 9 June 1944 and a big naval battle off the coast of Brittany.

Would be nice to be able to attack landings like this in HOI4.

As the German attacks were inconsequential compared to the tempest that destroyed the mulberry harbours, how about setting that priority to very low until we have a working supply system?

 

[Simon_9732495]

Would be nice to be able to attack landings like this in HOI4.

You can convoy raid naval invasions.
It directly hits the HP (the fighting strenght, the brown bar) of the invading division, making it lose manpower and equipment.

 

[Mousetick]

What Simon said above + you can attack the enemy landing fleet (not the convoys themselves, but the enemy's task force set on "Naval Invasion Support" mission) with your surface fleets (patrol + strike force).

Though in your example, good luck attacking the RN and USN with your puny 4-destroyer task force

 

[Riekopo]

What Simon said above + you can attack the enemy landing fleet (not the convoys themselves, but the enemy's task force set on "Naval Invasion Support" mission) with your surface fleets (patrol + strike force).

Though in your example, good luck attacking the RN and USN with your puny 4-destroyer task force

Really? When there is an enemy surface fleet sitting offshore supporting a landing, you can attack the surface fleet? How? Every time I try it doesn't work.

 

[Simon_9732495]

Really? When there is an enemy surface fleet sitting offshore supporting a landing, you can attack the surface fleet? How? Every time I try it doesn't work.

If the enemy fleet is on "naval invasion support" mission (I think the AI does it that way) and your convoy raiders engage the enemy convoys, the enemy fleet will attack your convoy raiders.
If the convoy raiders are in fact your main fleet -> Boom.

In other cases you should be able to find them with patrols.

And I think if you see that the enemy has shore bombardement bonus you can just send your fleet (with always engage) to the sea tiles next to the battle. If two fleets are at the same tile the will fight. But I think your positioning might be bad if you do it that way.

But there are experts for naval warfare here in the forum that can tell much better than I.

 

[Mousetick]

Really? When there is an enemy surface fleet sitting offshore supporting a landing, you can attack the surface fleet? How? Every time I try it doesn't work.

I do nothing special compared to any other regular surface fleet. I use a task force set to patrol in the sea zone(s) off the coast of the naval landing, for spotting, and a task force set to strike parked in a port nearby. Once the enemy surface fleet is spotted, the strike force comes out to engage and boom (assuming it thinks it can beat the enemy fleet based on engagement rule). I also add a sprinkling of naval bombers for extra punch when possible.

It works very well for me. In fact when playing as the UK or US, this is how I sink the bulk of the IJN as it seems the Japan AI player assigns most of its surface fleets to naval invasion support, and then proceeds to invade the Pacific islands...

I never move my strike fleet manually to attack. I don't know from experience, but others often report it doesn't work or it's unreliable.

I don't have MtG by the way, but I don't think it matters here.