coastal defense

[Theben]

The best thing about using spies in this manner is that it can be done in peacetime w/o ill effects. You will occasionally lose one, however, which considering the spy can never kill the enemy ship should make you choosy about picking your targets.

Did I read somewhere that the defense multiplier for AEGIS vs CM higher than AEGIS vs aircraft? D×5 instead of D×2?

+200% vs. air, +400% vs. missiles.

What happens when Marines attack from a transport?
Does the defender get the bonus from the City Walls or the Coastal Fortress? (or both??)

Bonus from the City Walls.

I disagree. My experience has shown it to be from coastal defences.

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Theben

Bonus from the City Walls.

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I disagree. My experience has shown it to be from coastal defences.

Perhaps it's either/or, perhaps both
Has anyone achieved conclusive testing ?

[Carolus Rex]

No testing (and I don't use marines very often), but shouldn't the standard text "Coastal fortress doubles defence!" (or whatever it says) pop up if the fortress takes the heat of the attack?

Carolus

[gunkulator]

Sometime long long ago somebody did test this and I'm pretty sure City Walls are effective against Marines, which only makes them that much more useless.

[Zedd]

I have a printout from the GL that says marines will allways count as land units therefor only the city walls option applies.

Also another printout says AEGIS gets X3 vs airraft and X5 agains units with the "destroy after attack" flag.

[Bloody Monk]

Here is a snip from the current thread Info: Combat

* x2 on defense versus air (AEGIS): An AEGIS cruiser gains a x3 bonus when attacked by an air unit, x5 if the attacker is a missile (destroyed after attacking).
* Can make amphibious assaults (marines): The unit can attack from the sea (a ship). This does not count as shore bombardment (3.9). The attacking marine does not ignore city walls (3.4).

Since this thread is still on the front page, maybe there are other nuggets that folk would enjoy reading about. Much thought and testing went into developing this thread. If someone has different, tested results about AEGIS or marines, I feel confident that the Marquis would like to hear from you.

Monk

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by gunkulator
Sometime long long ago somebody did test this and I'm pretty sure City Walls are effective against Marines, which only makes them that much more useless.

Yep. They're good defenders, though, and I customized a unit (shock troops) that appears later in the game that can do amphibious assaults while ignoring all walls and coastal defenses.

Gatekeeper