This has happened to me numerous times. You think you're going to win the match since you have about fifty tanks made and your spy planes/sattelite tells you that the enemy only has ten! Heh heh, you think to yourself how you'll kill him and how quick you'll be about it.

Then your construction yard blows up.

But you had hundreds of rocket launchers and SAMs to protect you from air attacks and there would be no way a Tanya could get through. Then you see half a dozen cruisers pounding away at your base, and you hear the enemy's laughter echoing in the distance.

If a map has any amount of water as much as a pond then you can expect water attacks. Expect to be attacked by the allies more then the Soviets. The Allies love to use their big ships whenever they get a chance.

The best way to defend against the boats coming your way is to build boats of your own to counter them. I don't just mean one naval unit but at least nine if you know the enemy has boats. If you don't know that the enemy is building boats and there IS a lot of water around, at least build a naval yard and one naval unit just in case. Soviet subs are fun to play with since its the only Soviet unit the Allies cannot see with their omnicient satellites. But when defending against any naval unit, make sure you have plenty of forces all TOGETHER. If you have a cruiser left out in the middle of nowhere, nine subs will make quick work of it, and you'll lose a lot of money due to your stupidity. Its harder for the enemy to take out eight boats that are together then eight boats spread around the map for reconasance (yes I spelled that word wrong, don't email me about it :)

Planes and helicopters work well against boats, but suck in trying to destroy subs (the reason should be obvious). Beware of destroyers though. Those will hurt your air units plenty so try to take those out with any naval units you have and let your planes and helicopters do the work.

Artillery do a mild job at attacking those enemy cruisers off of your coast. But you will need MANY of them to be effective and those cruisers would of blown away your powerplants and warfactories before you get done with a few. So as a last ditch effort to save your base when the dozen cruisers are arriving, try making as many rocket launchers as possible or a new MCV to recreate your base somewhere else.

Tesla coils do a nice job at electrocuting those annoying boats. Unfortunatly, the cruiser can and will destroy them before it gets in the tesla coil's range. But if the enemy screws up just like the rest of us do then the boat is history. Don't rely on your tesla coils to save you. The best way to defend against water attacks are with boats of your own and air attacks. Tanks may help if the boats get close to shore but most of the time they won't be range.

Most likely if the enemy is using boats to attack your base, due to the expensiveness of boats, you can be sure that the enemy won't have many tanks or defense structures defending his base. Simple get your tanks out and go attack. You'll probably win. Also, make sure you have a MCV out and start another base where the enemy CAN'T get to you by boats.

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