How to set up shore defence?

[jimmybackman1]

Looking around like crazy but cant find any setting that makes your armies actively defend your coast-line and true to crazy AI stuff the AI really really loves to make small crappy invasions all over the place that are easy to stomp out but annoying to keep an eye out for all the time so an option of "defend this coast line" that you can draw up just like your frontline tool would be amazingly convinient. :)

[equinox1911]

I found that the fallback line command works really well to defend coatsiles.

[Minnels]

You can set up garison areas to protect a bit. Not sure if that is the correct way but it seemed to work for me.

[Vel]

Originally posted by equinox1911:

I found that the fallback line command works really well to defend coatsiles.

Haven't tried that yet, actually sounds like a really good idea. Other than that I normally use Garrison Areas.

[jords321]

Garrison area will hold the important provinces like ports and what not. But if you want to cover every province so they cant land easily then use the defesive/fallback line and draw it along the coast

[Mansen]

Fallback lines are where you get a complete spread across all provinces. Garrison is purely for keeping key provinces like ports and cities protected. You need both if you have a coast that is very likely to be assaulted.

[sturmgeher]

hmm, i tried both, and both sucks....

I played ♥♥♥ and conquerred china, oeast-russia, india and the near-east. A lot of shore-line to defend.
I startet with specialized coast-guard division ( normal infantry with additioinal Military police) and let them guard the coast. the run to the coastal provices and all fine. but when an invasion is coming, and the US tried it often in china, they keep sitting and wont do anything. They even stopping the player from fighting back a they relocate used divisions.

After that, i tried Fallbackline. I used 130 divisons to defend the chinese coast from Korea to siam. They went to the coastal locations and all fine. But they also idn't care of any enemys. oplus they used 90 of the 130 devision in northchina, having 5-8 Divisions on 1 location and leaving the southren coast nerly empty.....

the best defence was the US AI, cause they took 2-3 locations and waitet for me to recognize and fight them myself.....

I think, if your coast isnt that big, use concentrated Subs, thats how phillepines killed my invasioncorps..... -.-