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I was so happy to be allowed to add twin 40's to my Balao in mid July 1944, at least until I had to use them. It's very strange, though. On the first patrol with the new AA guns I ran into a Jap plane, coming in low from my port side. I was on the bridge and ordered the gun crews (fore and aft) to fire at will at long range. I saw the fore gun train to port but before a shot was fired I went CTD!

Ok, so loading the same patrol from a saved game where I was 60nm out of Midway, I decided to run a diagnostic test fire into the sea. I manned the guns myself and fired. All guns operated perfectly! No CTD.

Feeling confident now, I proceeded toward Hokkaido to deliver the agent, but encountered a small convoy I think on 8/7/44. There was one Whale Factory ship, an escort destroyer following, three whale chasers, and one of those auxiliary cruisers. We sank the escort and Whale Factory ship with our first salvo, followed by two torps into the cruiser. She eventually sank, leaving only the unprotected Whale Chasers. One happened to be crossing my stern, so I surfaced with the intent of sinking her with 40mm AP ammo myself. I manned the gun, loaded the AP, and touched the trigger, at which point the damned thing went CTD again!

Don't know what is going on with it. I have tried two other Twin 40's in TMO 2.5. One is named S887 Twin 40mm - Mark 28 TMO. That one was flawless. The other is called Snarf 40mm Twin Mod. I could never get past a CTD with that one either.

Any chance you could look at this? I really want those twin 40's! There may be a clue in comparing the above two mods, but it is outside of my ability to do so. Let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks.