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Combat Warfare: Coastal Invasion

Combat Warfare: Coastal Invasion

Based on your experiences what for you was the tactical Combat Warfare: Coastal Invasion's environment advantages and disadvantages against the enemy?

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Coastal invasion is not a advantage unless you have the weather to assist. If you can get a good fog bank to help conceal your movements you will have a little bit less of a disadvantage. The enemy will be watching and they will have clear fields of fire to eat any coastal invasion up. The smart commander will use the weather to their advantage for the invasion thus you will be landing in bad weather conditions against a dug in and ready enemy. It will be a blood bath until you can establish a foot hold on the soil.

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Invasions are extremely difficult undertakings. All of the advantage lies with the defender. They are probably in prepared positions and have ready fields of fire planned to provide maximum killing opportunities. An invasion requires ratios like a city for success. The attacker needs overwhelming superiority in the air and with naval fire to prevail. Even with that it tends to be an iffy proposition.

As an example, during D-Day and the invasion of Normandy the allies had total air superiority and an awe inspiring amount of naval gunfire and it was still a close run thing. Omaha beach nearly didn't work and the other beached barely worked. And this was against some of the worst troops in the German Army. The best troops were kept in the Pas de Calais, another section of the French coast which is where the Germans expected the invasion. Even after D-Day they kept their best troops at the Pas de Calais because they thought Normandy was a ruse.