Coastal Defences
In Fall of the Samurai coastal defences are gun batteries positioned next to a port to prevent enemy fleets from landing in a province. As port buildings are developed, the quality and quantity of coastal defences improves in tandem - military ports having the best quality defences attached to them. The firing range of the defences is graphically represented on the map, and an enemy fleet ending turn within it will suffer attrition. In order to land in a province a fleet must come within firing range of its defences and attack the port. Alternatively, the port can be sabotaged to neutralise its defences. During a port battle gun batteries automatically aid the defending fleet.
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