Coastal guns

[Merc_]

Will they be a thing in battles ?

[Guest]

I think for campaign not so sure for academy 

[ThatZenoGuy]

4 hours ago, Merc_ said:

Will they be a thing in battles ?

I think it would be cool if they were in campaign.

Coastal guns could go up to 16 inch weapons, were tiny targets, and were deadly accurate.

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, ThatZenoGuy said:

I think it would be cool if they were in campaign.

Coastal guns could go up to 16 inch weapons, were tiny targets, and were deadly accurate.

Not only what you mentioned it was commonly accepted that 1 gun on shore was worth 3 on a ship because A the gun is perfectly stable, B the crew would have already set up range makers with preset elevations and bearings to them. And they could also be armored with amounts of steel that would sink a battleship while their bases would be meters of concrete and steel.

[Fess21]

2 minutes ago, Absolute0CA said:

commonly accepted that 1 gun on shore was worth 3 on a ship

Source? 

[ThatZenoGuy]

1 minute ago, Fess21 said:

Source? 

It was long held as a rule of thumb that one shore-based gun equaled three naval guns of the same caliber, due to the steadiness of the coastal gun which allowed for significantly higher accuracy than their sea-mounted counterparts. Land-based guns also benefited in most cases from the additional protection of walls or earth mounds. The range of gun powder based coastal artillery also has a derivative role in international law and diplomacy, wherein a country's three mile limit of 'coastal waters' is recognized as under the nation or state's laws.^[2]

^(Wikipedia)

 

[Guest]

Don't have it, its somewhere on the Historical Youtuber Drachinifel. Sorry I can't give better. I can't be assed to look through his hundreds of videos.

[MichaelWells]

I'm pretty sure coastal artillery had a faster rate of fire than the eqivelent guns on a ship.

[SiWi]

well right now we only fight on the high seas... should we get maps with land on it... cause you know ships usually meet each other on the cost (thou modern times has weaken this) I would hope we get also coastal deferenses. In fact a mission one could get is to destroy set deference with your ships to make a invasion possible or help them defend against an invasion force. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, MichaelWells said:

I'm pretty sure coastal artillery had a faster rate of fire than the eqivelent guns on a ship.

Actually no they didn’t, except for small man loaded guns that are quite frankly much easier to load on steady ground, there wasn’t any difference in the large caliber guns loaders.

[Illya von Einzbern]

I can see coastal guns in the campaign.
It would be logical to add these.

Naval landings?
Now i am hyped

[Ink]

We plan to offer battles near coastlines in the Campaign. We cannot offer more details at the moment, since the campaign is under development.