DP Guns versus Ships

[vaned74]

It appears that DP guns in base forces do not fire against bombarding ships. They do fire defending amphibious landings, but, not when the port target is bombarded. Or at least I cannot get them to every counter fire against purely bombarding ships.

Is this working as designed?

I would think that a naval base force with 5" DP guns would try to defend the port against say a maruading attack by a destroyer bombardment force.

If not working, a simple fix would potentially be to convert base forces to CD unit types - in which case they would fire in defense of the hex from naval bombardment forces.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: vaned74

It appears that DP guns in base forces do not fire against bombarding ships. They do fire defending amphibious landings, but, not when the port target is bombarded. Or at least I cannot get them to every counter fire against purely bombarding ships.

Is this working as designed?

I would think that a naval base force with 5" DP guns would try to defend the port against say a maruading attack by a destroyer bombardment force.

If not working, a simple fix would potentially be to convert base forces to CD unit types - in which case they would fire in defense of the hex from naval bombardment forces.

depends on what range the bombardment TF is set to as it could stay out of 5" range easily.

[michaelm75au]

DP guns can fire back against bombarding ships if in range.

[PaxMondo]

Definitely.  I've seen mine do so a number of times.