RE: Getting Ready for another CHS Release
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:39 pm
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
The USA West Coast ports received their own base units. However, the forts guarding the US West COast Ports are sadly defecient. I find it interesting that some effort was made to improve the Commonwealth Forts in both Canada and Australia, meanwhile the forts protecting Hawaii and the US West Coat lanquished. As an example Puget Sound/Seattle was protected by three major forts, the locations of which allowed for triangulation of targets in the kill zone. These forts were Fort Flagler, Fort Casey, and Fort Worden, not to mention other forts located along the Juan de Fuca Straits at the mouth and along the south shore. Maybe there is insufficient space for adding these, and some justification at least for the West Coast Ports of not having any of them there at all. There is no way the Japanese can ever truely threaten amhibious assault on the West Coast. I would suggest either beefing them up or removing them and instead add additional forts located on Oahu, primarily Fort Ruger at Diamond Head and Fort Hase at Kaneohe Bay in north Oahu. See:
http://www.cdsg.org
Not revising the US West Coast forts is my fault. I initially wanted to revise the Australian forts to correct a few problems and omissions. I then ended up revising the Canadian forts because I started to add/change bases in Canada. I intended to have a detailed look at the US forts, including Pearl Harbor, but I never got around to it. This was all before CHS began, but was incorporated into CHS when it got underway.
Perhaps I will go back and do this one day. If anyone has detailed information they can always post it here to make the job easier...
I have worked up Excel spread sheets on the compositions of the West Coast and Hawaiian CD's over time by year. For simplicity sake I would combine all the various forts and batteries into one overall fort. Lets face it, at 60 miles accross per hex, having "seperate" static CD units is a bit on obsessive side.
Puget Sound area would have 2 CD's, one in the hex containing the Port of Victoria which would represent the Canadian CD's protecting Victoria as well as the US CD around Port Angeles. The second CD would be in the hex containing Seattle and would be composed of Fort Worden, Fort Flagler, Fort Casey, and various misc batteries such as the one at Goat Island.
The mouth of the Columbia River there were three forts, Fort Stevens, Fort Columbia, and Fort Canby.
San Francisco has a multitude of forts; Fort Funston, Fort Miley, Fort Winfield Scott, Fort Baker, Fort Barry and Fort Cronkhite, as well as various batteries.
Los Angeles Fort MacAthur, Bolsa Chica, and White Point, as well as other batteries.
San Diego has Fort Rosecrans and Fort Emory.
Hawaii, well is complex. Oahu is literally ringed with forts, which I broke down into the fortifications defending Peal Harbor, Honolulu, and the North Coast. Again all should be combined into a single Fort.
The 155mm CD's are actually mobile and should probably be represented by seperate non-static units. I am currently researching the unit disginations. Additionally each of the static CD's should have a token AA defense (3" and .50MG).
Now how/where can I post the Excel file??