warning: deadly accurate coastal batteries

WernherVonTrapp · 07-12-11, 06:12 PM

I've never experienced a coastal battery showing up on the map at 13nm. You sure it wasn't 1300yds? Trust me, the shells came from a much closer shore gun. Probably 6000yds or less.

Daniel Prates · 07-12-11, 07:43 PM

I read about shore batteries being radar-oriented at some point in the war, but I'm thinking about british heavy guns in the english channel. I doubt the japanese had anything like it.

Frank Ravelli · 07-14-11, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

I've never experienced a coastal battery showing up on the map at 13nm. You sure it wasn't 1300yds? Trust me, the shells came from a much closer shore gun. Probably 6000yds or less.

If there was any battery closer than those 13nm it was not depicted on the map, this is for sure. That´s why i almost got sunk, as i tried to find the source of the shooting, to no avail

WernherVonTrapp · 07-14-11, 08:53 AM

Coastal batteries don't show up on the map unless they're within visual range. What you probably saw on the map was some type of air base. There are a couple of air bases that show up on the map as you approach Tokyo. Were you in TC at the time you were shelled?

Armistead · 07-14-11, 09:19 AM

Wernher is right, you will see a lil black icon that shows up for air bases, but they pop up when your in range, usually 3-500 miles, but shore guns use the same generic icon, using RSRD.

I don't know if the shore guns now have the range of ship guns since Duci adjusted them, but the longest I've been hit is 5nms now, the range use to be 6000 yards.

07-12-11, 06:12 PM	#1
WernherVonTrapp Admiral Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Now, alot farther from NYC. Posts: 2,228 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	I've never experienced a coastal battery showing up on the map at 13nm. You sure it wasn't 1300yds? Trust me, the shells came from a much closer shore gun. Probably 6000yds or less. __________________ "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Miyamoto Musashi ------------------------------------------------------- "What is truth?" -Pontius Pilate

07-14-11, 08:53 AM	#4
WernherVonTrapp Admiral Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Now, alot farther from NYC. Posts: 2,228 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Coastal batteries don't show up on the map unless they're within visual range. What you probably saw on the map was some type of air base. There are a couple of air bases that show up on the map as you approach Tokyo. Were you in TC at the time you were shelled? __________________ "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Miyamoto Musashi ------------------------------------------------------- "What is truth?" -Pontius Pilate

07-12-11, 07:43 PM	#2
Daniel Prates Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Curitiba, Brazil Posts: 938 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 0	I read about shore batteries being radar-oriented at some point in the war, but I'm thinking about british heavy guns in the english channel. I doubt the japanese had anything like it.

07-14-11, 09:19 AM	#5
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Wernher is right, you will see a lil black icon that shows up for air bases, but they pop up when your in range, usually 3-500 miles, but shore guns use the same generic icon, using RSRD. I don't know if the shore guns now have the range of ship guns since Duci adjusted them, but the longest I've been hit is 5nms now, the range use to be 6000 yards.