The Brighton coastal guns were Allied ultra-heavy, extreme-range anti-naval cannons, deployed to defend Brighton Beach, Great Britain during the Third World War.
Gameplay[]
The player is able to repair the coastal guns during the 1st mission of the Allied campaign by using engineers. The guns can then be used to fend off waves of an incoming Soviet naval invasion force. Repairing the guns also completes the respective bonus objective. Ironically enough, despite their appearance, intended purpose and description, the Brighton coastal guns actual ingame performance is rather underwhelming. Despite having adequate range, the gun's damage output is quite low, resulting in requiring 2-3 salvos to destroy a single Bullfrog or Stingray. Coupled with its low rate of fire, this effectively means that the guns won't be able to thin out the invasion force by any sizeable degree before the Soviet units make landfall. Using multiple guns to focus fire a single target helps mitigate this slightly, but overall, repairing the guns has very little impact on the mission.
Players may be better served to spend the funds required for the engineers on additional combat units instead, especially on higher difficulties.
