Deck Gun Question

[SmokinTep]

I have GWX installed and noticed last night that my deck gun only has HE shells, no AP or Star shells. Looked in the manual about this, but found nothing.

[danlisa]

I'm sure that it's in Das Buch somewhere. Anywho, during the research carried out by the GWX devs (probably Clay Blair) they found that most U-Boats only carried HE rounds.

There are instructions on how to re-enable the other rounds in the mods forum, it's fairly easy as they have only been commented out in a config.

[SmokinTep]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[SmokinTep]

OK, been thru about 10-15 pages in the Mod Forum. Seen a couple of things, but found nothing except this minitweaker which I don't want to install. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

[danlisa]

OK, been thru about 10-15 pages in the Mod Forum. Seen a couple of things, but found nothing except this minitweaker which I don't want to install. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

You don't need Minitweaker, see this post from BBW. MAKE A BACKUP!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=485252&postcount=10

[danlisa]

I probably didn't make that clear. In the list on that post you can see lines that start with ; these are the original values. ; get used to comment out the values. You can also just change the 0 values.

[SmokinTep]

Thanks again............:up:

[Foghladh_mhara]

I'm sure that it's in Das Buch somewhere. Anywho, during the research carried out by the GWX devs (probably Clay Blair) they found that most U-Boats only carried HE rounds.

You mean Clay Blair is part of the GWX dev team or they use his works? Got his 'Hitlers U-Boat War' I & II in my desk here at work. Just a bit of light reading when the boss is not looking:D

[melnibonian]

You mean Clay Blair is part of the GWX dev team or they use his works? Got his 'Hitlers U-Boat War' I & II in my desk here at work. Just a bit of light reading when the boss is not looking:D
What Dan is trying to say is that the major source of reference and research for the GWX Team is Clay Blair's Books.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm sure that it's in Das Buch somewhere. Anywho, during the research carried out by the GWX devs (probably Clay Blair) they found that most U-Boats only carried HE rounds.

You mean Clay Blair is part of the GWX dev team or they use his works? Got his 'Hitlers U-Boat War' I & II in my desk here at work. Just a bit of light reading when the boss is not looking:D
Actually that info originally comes from John Campbell's Naval Weapons Of World War Two, which I think I was the first one to mention. You can find the info quoted here:
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_88mm-45_skc35.htm
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_41-45_skc32.htm

Notice the note for the 8.8cm shell. Campbell is more specific; he has notes for both guns which say "AP and Illuminating Shell for minesweepers and subchasers". While he doesn't say "only", it's a pretty convincing argument that the subs didn't carry those shells.

[Crazy Ian]

I'm sure that it's in Das Buch somewhere. Anywho, during the research carried out by the GWX devs (probably Clay Blair) they found that most U-Boats only carried HE rounds.

Cool.. I do love those books.. been years since I read the pair though..

[Pablo]

I'm sure that it's in Das Buch somewhere. Anywho, during the research carried out by the GWX devs (probably Clay Blair) they found that most U-Boats only carried HE rounds.

There are instructions on how to re-enable the other rounds in the mods forum, it's fairly easy as they have only been commented out in a config. Hi!

This information didn't make it into V1.03 of the GWX Manual (aka "Das Buch" ;)) but it will be in the next release.

Pablo

[SmokinTep]

Changes made, works great.

[Jimbuna]

Great....everyone can 'stand easy' now :D :arrgh!: