Defending your county and coast.

[Invictus5966]

Greetings...

I was watching and in one of the multi plays (some time ago) I saw Daniel protect his coast and inland areas against Johan.

If you set your forces to cover the zone I can see you not having enough to also protect the coast line as you would like.

Would it be easier to assign troops to one force just on coast and another force for inlands? Does anyone else have this concern especially in light of an invasion going unnoticed?

What are you guys gonna do to protect your coast?

 

[Sun_Killer]

The coast and the mainland of europa is too big to protect everything with a division. But garrison zone works quiet well i think. About the unnoticed invasion. This happend alot in WWW cause of the high speed they were playing.If you play at a reasonable speed you should have no problems with this, aslo naval invasions get a pop-up on the right side of the screen.

 

[Invictus5966]

Hmmm don't remember garrison zones. What I would want is one division in every port at a minimum plus forces inland and major cities

Oh well thx for the reply.

 

[Sun_Killer]

if you have enough forces assaigned to the army with garison zone, this is exactly what the ai will do with the units.

 

[LordOfWar16]

You only really have to defend cities and harbours. The landing during an naval invasion is actually the easiest part. The hardest part is to secure and bringing enouhg supply in to maintain the invasion force. If they land somewhere in the normandy, but cant manage to secure heaviely defended ports they would be quiet literaly starved out and defeated.

Just assign a garrison zone to france for example and your troops will automaticly protect important areas like airbases, cities and ports.

 

[Denkt]

It may be a good idea to not only keep divisions at the port but also in the provinces that surround it as the enemy could try to encircle the port and attack from multiple direction.

 

[jcd000]

So, its unintuitive, but land forts in ports are more valuable than coastal forts at key beaches...

 

[Secret Master]

So, its unintuitive, but land forts in ports are more valuable than coastal forts at key beaches...

Not at all.

Tiny islands will need coastal forts, because there is no other way to get the port.

Furthermore, protecting key cities with coastal forts ensures that you don't have to tie panzers down in Cherbourg. I can drop a crappy division in a key port, but protect it with coastal forts AND land forts, ensuring that you can't ninja it quickly. They can hold out long enough (using the forts) for reinforcements to show up. So, the panzers can sit in Paris and react to any invasion along the English Channel with relatively equal speed, while the crappy divisions tie up the invasion at the shore.

To be honest, no one should have the manpower to fully man an unbroken string of coastal fortresses from Kiel to Nice anyway.