ORIGINAL: AlaskanWarrior
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If you examine all of the coast defense for Oahu (Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, and the North Coast) in December 1941 you get the following totals (current game in parenthesis):
16" CD 4 (4)
14" CD 2 (2)
12" CD 4 (4)
12" M 20 (15)
240mm 12 (0)
8" CD 20 (10)
6" CD 6 (4)
155mm CD 42 (20)
5" CD 2 (0)
3" CD 6 (0)
So what you are suggesting is not too far off. I would hesitate in increasing the number of guns above historical levels, and instead would suggest tweaking the stats.
RM
The figures given aree generally accurate..., but even then they error on the LOW
side by a fair amount. And they totally fail to reccognize the inherent superiority
in accuracy that fixed CD installations have over guns afloat. The FIRE CONTROL
was an order of magnitude better than that of ships. The best ship afloat in 1941
had a range finder with a base distance of perhaps 30 meters---on shore the dis-
tance could easily exceed a mile. The larger the base of the triangle, the more
accurate the "triangulation" of the length of the other legs (range) will be. Couple
that with pre-figured tide tables, fixed solid emplacements that don't have to allow
for their own movements. mine fields to channalize the posibilities of approach, and
all the other advantages of a designed, shore mounted facility, and the chance of
a hit is closer to 20% than the 2% that would be considered good afloat. That's one
of the main reasons that CD instalations don't need to have the number of guns in
a battery that a Battleship would.
Now add in that a shell from a ship that doesn't hit the CD gun itself basically hits
nothing of consequence but a lot of dirt and concrete---while if a shell from a CD
diesn't hit a BB's turret (a larger target in itself), it can still inflict damage on the
other 200+ yard-long portions of the ship. The game does not seem to allow for
this increased accuracy..., and to do so would require re-writing code. What I pro-
posed was a way of reflecting at least SOME of this advantage by increasing the
number of guns (and shots). It's not a perfect solution---but it is easy to imple-
ment
