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On the advice of Adm. Kuznetsov i have aquired "Fortress Europe" by Kaufmann and Jurga. This seems to be the definitive book on defensive positions and has lots of nice drawings. This data is lifted directly from the book for the time being;

NB No. of guns in battery(No. of batterys)



Genoa and La Spezia

2x15" guns(x2)
4x12" guns(x2)
3x6" guns (x3)
4x6" guns(x1)
5x6" guns + 1x120mm(x4)
4x120mm guns(x1)


Naples

2x190mm guns (x1)
3x6" guns(x1)

Straits of Messina

4x280mm howitzers(x1)
6x280mm howitzers(x2)

Augusta/Syracuse

2x15" guns(x1)
2x8" guns (x1)
3x6" guns(x3)
4x6" guns + 1x120mm(x4)

Palermo

4x6" guns + 1x120mm(x4)
4x120mm guns(x2)

Trapani

4x6" guns (x1)

Taranto

4x12" guns+1x120mm(x1)
5x8"guns+1x120mm(x1)
2x6"guns(x1)
4x6" guns(x4)
5x6" guns+1x120mm(x2)
4x120mm guns(x4)

Brindisi

2x15" guns(x2)
3x6" guns(x2)
4x6" guns(x1)

Venice

2x15" guns(x1)
2x12" guns(x3)
4x6" guns(x3)
4x120mm guns(x2)

Pola

2x190mm guns(x1)
2x6" guns(x1)
4x149mm guns(x5)

Italian engineers designed some awesome alpine defenses, didn't they?

And go take a look at the coast artillery the Soviets had around Kronshtadt. Nobody is coming anywhere near that and living to tell the tale!

Yep those Alpine defenses are fiarly amazing. Especially when you figure about the terrain as well. I think that Italy is safer from ground attack than i previously thought.

I too have now aquired the book (the only one I didn't have to order!) and its very very cool. I've been working for some time on both a map of Atlantis and a list of coastal battery's both of which are related to each other. I hope to have a list completed soon!