The Honour of deck guns...

[Crazy Ian]

Am I not the only person who loves engaging targets with a deck gun where ever reasonably possible? In my mind there is no better way to add to your tonnage using the good 'ole weapon..
When the weather works with you (a rarity, I know) you can rack up a quite impressive patrol tonnage when added to your torpedo kills.
Whats the most tonnage anyones sank with a deck gun?

[Heibges]

I totally agree.

One patrol, over the course of a couple of days of great weather, i came upon 5 small merchants and sank them with the deck gun. Great fun!

[leeclose]

Yup i like taking merchants Out with My deck gun and when i want a luahg my AA guns :up:

[High Voltage]

the best is when you aim at their cargo after peppering the waterline with shots, and a giant fireball shoots up into the sky!!! Man I love that....:sunny:

[IRONxMortlock]

I love using the deck gun. In my current career though I used a Type II for my first 16 patrols. Now that I've got a Type VII I rarely find unescorted targets to use my deck gun on. Radar is just coming out and it's making any kind of surface attack suicidal. I'll probably keep installed so I can hurt stragglers though I guess.

Here's a question. If I remove my deck gun using SH3C does it improve my underwater performance?
If so it might be coming off rather soon.
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[Crazy Ian]

I think we've all forgotten the noble sport of "Funnel Skittles" too :D

[leeclose]

Great fun to do with AA guns:up:

[Crazy Ian]

Great fun to do with AA guns:up:

Thats something I meant to ask.. can you damage Merchants with your AA weaponry?

[Kingcobra24]

Great fun to do with AA guns:up:
Thats something I meant to ask.. can you damage Merchants with your AA weaponry?

Your anti-aircraft guns will blow up deck cargo, but rarely sink anything other than VERY small trawlers, tugs, fishing boats, etc. From coastal vessels on up, go with the deck gun and HE rounds, rather than AP rounds.

:lurk:

[Richard Zapp]

I have sank Elco Torpedo boats with the Flak gun but I never had
any luck with merchants. My only 100k patrol I had was in a type IX and
I sailed back to base completely out of torpedos and deck gun ammo.
This was pre GWX.
:D

[Crazy Ian]

Your anti-aircraft guns will blow up deck cargo, but rarely sink anything other than VERY small trawlers, tugs, fishing boats, etc. From coastal vessels on up, go with the deck gun and HE rounds, rather than AP rounds.

:lurk:

Thats good to hear.. I sank a couple of elco's with Flak but never thought about the smaller civvie rigs... Fishermen of the Atlantic beware!!

[leeclose]

I took out a medium merchant with my AA guns last night had ran out of Deck gun ammo and eels so had to rely on the AA guns and i made it sink it took me bloody ages but it worked:yep: :up:

[Brag]

On my previous patrol sank a small freighter with 4 rounds--satisfying :smug:

[Pevs86]

IXBs 37mm will punch holes in most things I've found, even the largest tankers.

But, being 37mm, it's not a very big hole, but gives you something to do between 105 reloads :)

[Rykaird]

Yup, love the deck guns. Actually had four straight days of good weather - I mean water like glass - off the coast of Ireland in October 1940. Unreal. Lots of tonnage.

But I never use the deck gun during the day, and I never engage warships with it (unless I'm about to die anyway, and it's the whole "and for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" thing.)

[leeclose]

Ive managed to take out a few DD's at extreme range with my 105 becous ei have a really good gun crew and a brilliant boat the trusty u-111 IXB all the way:up:

[Iron Budokan]

Yup, I love my deck gun, too! :up: I also like raking fishing vessels and other small craft with my AA until blood runs from the scuppers. Great fun!

[bookworm_020]

Using my 37mm flack gun when I had Stock Sh3 I could sink coastal and small merchants. GWX means its deck or nothing.:up:

In Stock Sh3 I have sunk around 100,000 with the deck gun alone (there use to be a place where unescorted liners would come through like clock work in a two year time frame.

GWX I have sunk 36,000 with the deck gun, but as the years pass (i'm into 1943) the deck gun is getting less and less use.

[Rilder]

My Dad once after getting fustrated with torpedo missings surfaced and duked a Flower Corvy with his deck gun, I was calling him an idiot the whole time but he killed the bugger, He rammed it once or twice too, (you know the whole sliding along the side and waving to the crew on the ship while you slide by rammings) :p

[Dantenoc]

Yes, many people have mentioned the deck gun as very satisfying since it makes you feel like a pirate praying on the weak and lone merchants :arrgh!:

[xlbob]

I use deck gun when ever possible... trying to save torps for later :D

Usually if the ship is big I fire one torp first, if one torp doesn't sink it, I surface and finish it with the deck gun.

[Crosseye76]

Same here Xlbob.

[Crazy Ian]

Here's another deckgun related question...

If you give your watch officer a gunner/flak gunner qualification, does it affect the skill of your deck/flack gun crew?

And who actually uses Starshells???

[alamwuhk2a]

I think the qualifications only increase the accuracy of AI gunnery.
By the way, I tried to use the deck gun on my VIIC in 1940, getting 60k tonnage:cool:

[Corsair]

Here's another deckgun related question...

If you give your watch officer a gunner/flak gunner qualification, does it affect the skill of your deck/flack gun crew?

And who actually uses Starshells???

I guess most people around this forum use GWX now, so only HE available...

[Brag]

Here's another deckgun related question...

If you give your watch officer a gunner/flak gunner qualification, does it affect the skill of your deck/flack gun crew?

And who actually uses Starshells???

In GWX, having an officer & PO gunner qualified makes a BIG difference, in accuracy, effectiveness and speed of reloading. Earlier, I mentioned sinking a ship with four shots. That was with gunner officer and PO.

Happy shooting, Mates. :up:

[Crazy Ian]

In GWX, having an officer & PO gunner qualified makes a BIG difference, in accuracy, effectiveness and speed of reloading. Earlier, I mentioned sinking a ship with four shots. That was with gunner officer and PO.

Happy shooting, Mates. :up:

I can see a major increase in tonnage coming up...

[leeclose]

My Dad once after getting fustrated with torpedo missings surfaced and duked a Flower Corvy with his deck gun, I was calling him an idiot the whole time but he killed the bugger, He rammed it once or twice too, (you know the whole sliding along the side and waving to the crew on the ship while you slide by rammings) :p Yup i have doen that before in fact i git a armed trawler so hard once i ducked the thing under the water and it didnt come back up i'm sure i got a piccy some where but that was with vanilla SH3:up: :lurk:

[Crazy Ian]

Ah armed trawlers.. hours of fun to be had surfacing 700m directly behind them and watching 'em desperatley twist and turn to get a bead on you with their main ordinance :D

[leeclose]

Yup i love it espesh when u use a IXB which can out turn the the buggers:up: