Beach
Beaches are narrow strips of sand or gravel along coastlines. They're always composed of two strips with different terrain textures (varying colors of sand and gravel) with a few meters of knee-deep water in front. In Foxhole beaches have specific gameplay and strategic purposes.
Gameplay
Landing
Outside of Seaport, Shipyards, and Navy Piers, beaches are the only area where a Barge can lower its ramp.
When travelling on water, Landing APCs and amphibious LUVs can only get back on land through a beach.
Although they can deploy their ramp elsewhere, beaches are still ideal landing locations for Landing Ships.
Construction
Most structures cannot be built on beaches. Only a few types are allowed and often not everywhere on the beach.
| Part of the beach | Structures allowed |
|---|---|
| Knee-deep water | Shippables (including Emplacements) |
| Wet strip | Shippable, Tank Trap, Fire Pit, Sign Post, Motorboat, Field Bridge, Navy Pier |
| Dry strip | Shippable, Tank Trap, Fire Pit, Sign Post, Field Bridge, Sandbag Cover, Barbed Wire, Barbed Wire Fence, Tripod, AT Mine, AP Mine |
Foxholes, Trenches and Bunkers can't be dug on beaches.
Motorboat Production
The wet beach strip closest to the water is the only place where a Motorboat can be built using a Hammer.
| Input(s) | Output | Time (hh:mm:ss) |
|---|---|---|
60 x Basic Materials  | BMS - Grouper  | 60 Hammer hits |
Strategic Purposes
Since beaches are the only place where Barges can deploy they are very useful to partisan operations and also an ideal deployment location for naval invasions. With beaches, a barge can transport non-amphibious Vehicles to be used deep in enemy territory. It's therefore very important to build defenses around the most strategic beaches.
You cannot prevent a barge or landing ship from deploying on a beach by building and placing obstacles, there's always room to deploy.
A few beaches in the world are exceptionally deep and thus hard to defend due to the lack of defenses. The largest being near Axehead in Godcrofts.
Gallery
The various looks of beaches on the Map, colors depend on beach texture types (sand, gravel).
All structures that can be built or placed on beaches, put as close to the water as allowed.
A barge with its ramp lowered on a beach
A beach in the swamp-like area of the Drowned Vale, with a Motorboat being built.
