Getting a beach assault in a long campaign

[jivemi]

Originally Posted by rob_s_smith

Hi everyone
A bit of a pain, but amphibious assault is y favourite kind of battle.
Rob

Odd sentiments IMHO; for me they're really nerve-wracking. Nearly lost my AO to an AT hitting its barge from a hillside in a recently started US LC with a landing in Tunisia (November '42). As it was lost 3 barges with a tank, 2 infantry squads and a scout team going down. Next time better set the visibility to 10 or less (had it set to 15, my bad). It was a relief though to be relieved of any necessity to buy landing craft since they're already provided and load your guys automatically.

BTW in such assaults should one buy lots of naval arty support? Otherwise your immobile howitzers and such land bunched up and easy prey for CB or enemy stragglers. Suppose an alternative would be to unload them at sea during Deployment and split them up among other landing craft, or simply leave them afloat while heavier but less accurate destroyers and cruisers pound the defenders. Using trucks on the beach to move them around seems too risky. Cheers and have fun!