Heavy Artillery - Where to place best

[Templer]

Heavy artillery

The heavy artillery - better place in or outside a city?

[le Anders]

I always place coastal arty outside. I think they don't fire at ships unless they're outside.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[caranorn]

I always place coastal arty outside. I think they don't fire at ships unless they're outside.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

At least in other games they do fire on ships while inside a city/fort. No idea for Espãna as I haven't had any combat yet involving the few coastal artillery (2 nationalist and 1 republican). Personally I tend to place them inside structures as that way they will not be drawn into regular (non assault) land combat for which they are not equipped...

[Philo32b]

Be careful about moving big guns that were placed inside the fort at the scenario setup if you intend them to fire on enemy ships. In another game (WiA) I moved the big guns outside the Louisbourg fort. It was never right again--it never fired on passing enemy ships after that.