Attempting to perform a landing without neutralizing the headquarters will often result in the sinking of your troop transports by shore batteries. Neutralizing a headquarters renders the entire island neutral and ready for a landing. Coastal defences prevent destroyers and light cruisers from creeping up on the base these installations are best neutralized with heavy cruisers or battleships.

Headquarters are relatively small targets and as such are best targeted from the shore. Aiming the HQ's cannons is identical to that of ships, and when firing, any guns in arc will fire at the HQ's target. Headquarters are the only land position directly controllable by the player. While a headquarters alone is not a threat, it is always supplemented by several land installations around it. In terms of armament they usually carry two dual-purpose cannons, making them effective at destroying both ships and planes. These facilities are the goal of the multiplayer Island Capture mode, and are heavily armed. Dive bombers cause very little damage to airfields and carpet bombers tend to miss, so naval gunfire is the best way to eliminate these.Īircraft can be launched from airfields via the support manager, and are no longer directly controllable by the player.

It is generally more favourable to simply target the enemy headquarters and neutralize the whole island.

As with shipyards, however, once destroyed, it takes a long time for it to regenerate. They are very heavily armoured, and it takes a lot of firepower to bring one down. Airfields operate in the same manner as shipyards, and are oddly more common than aircraft carriers.

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