S-Class: No AA gun?

[Aktungbby]

jlacy94! After an eight year silent run!

[DicheBach]

Interesting stuff. I'll admit I'm one of the "charge 'em and sink 'em with the deck gun" crowd. Hey, it works.

You guys are modders, make it work more realistically!

1. Slow the reload time by a factor of 5?
2. Make DDs behave properly, i.e., use their guns at range instead of charging at a sub that is still surfaced
3. Make injuries to deck crews more likely and serious.
4. Possibly change some of the maths, basically make subs more fragile (I see TMO did that, not sure if FOTRS does or not)
5. Possibly make the sub deck guns less accurate?

I find the gunnery to be one of the more fun parts of the game, but I'm keen to play realistic too.

Speaking of which: I'm surprised that the naval combat parts of this game do not seem to have been expanded more generally; meaning, career and/or missions in surface ships, scenarios that model large engagements, etc. It seems to be a pretty robust simulation of naval combat of the era, so it would seem it could be done.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by DicheBach

Interesting stuff. I'll admit I'm one of the "charge 'em and sink 'em with the deck gun" crowd. Hey, it works.

You guys are modders, make it work more realistically!

1. Slow the reload time by a factor of 5?
2. Make DDs behave properly, i.e., use their guns at range instead of charging at a sub that is still surfaced
3. Make injuries to deck crews more likely and serious.
4. Possibly change some of the maths, basically make subs more fragile (I see TMO did that, not sure if FOTRS does or not)
5. Possibly make the sub deck guns less accurate?

I find the gunnery to be one of the more fun parts of the game, but I'm keen to play realistic too.

Speaking of which: I'm surprised that the naval combat parts of this game do not seem to have been expanded more generally; meaning, career and/or missions in surface ships, scenarios that model large engagements, etc. It seems to be a pretty robust simulation of naval combat of the era, so it would seem it could be done.

I'm one of those who believes that realism lives in the behavior of the player. I also believe that the game should be playable in the way that the player wants, not required by the prejudices of modders.

You'll see this much more when we graduate to making plugin mods for Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate.

[Raptor_Pilot]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Yet we have people on Subsim claiming that their whole strategy is to charge at convoys, picking off the destroyers with the deck gun, then taking the merchies at their leisure. That's why I raise the point. That and a strange comment on You Tube about how stupid those real submariners must have been and how their brains were atrophied because they lacked computer joystick experience, followed by the typical Rambo deck gun bragging.

All of my own deck gun bragging is done in jest, but I am guilty of it...
(Not calling submariners stupid, but using the deck gun as a general purpose weapon.)
Of course, I never deliberately charge into a convoy with guns blazing, but if I am caught on the surface, especially against only one or two opponents like subchasers, I'll fight it out rather than dive.