Deck guncrew just wont open fire!!!

[joho]

Intercepted a convoy outbound from Gibraltar on apr19-40. Managed to sink one war ship 10k+ in a sub attack. Later same night I closed in on the surface just behind the escorting corvette and launched 2x2 eels in 2 pyro ships hitting both. Made a 180 turn and watched the corvette searching in vain behind me. Circled around and nailed one from behind in bringing him to a complete stop. Went to periscope depth and waited an hour or so. Then surfaced to finish him of with the deck gun. Now the problems begins. I assign deck crew to the gun, put my gunner officer in charge and order the deckofficer to open fire at will. He confirms my order but does he submit the order to his guncrew - NO! I open the wepon controll window to assign ammo to the gun. Still silence, Im ordering fire on closest target, fire at will, get the confirmation but still silent. It is not untill I take charge of the gun my self and pull the *********g trigger personally things start to happen. Then I can hand over to my gunner and he continues to fire at the target.:hmm:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Well, first take a deep breath. Things could be worse. At least your deck gun will fire.;)

Are you running any mods?

[TarJak]

Did you select a target using the binocs? Point them at the ship then hit spacebar to target that ship. Also what distance and target type did you select? If these are not right they won't fire on the target unless you do what you did.

[joho]

Im running GWX. When I surfaced my deck crew could not, I could though, see the target so when we got closer I got the usual Ship spotted sign asking if I wanted to engage, maintain or dive. I answered engage. BUT I was going decksawash at that time. The gun was manned anyhow only they did not open fire. It could be that they did not have a clear sight, but why the shipspotted sign in that case?

[TarJak]

When you run decks awash the gun will not fire if the crew's feet are getting wet. You have to fully surface for them to operate the gun. If water is on deck they will even delay loading until the deck is clear of water.

If you saved before attacking, reload and try again fully surfaced and you should see a difference in behaviour.

[Jimbuna]

Yep....as TJ has stated......Fully surfaced and spacebar through binoculars view :up:

[Umfuld]

My crew has never fired. Didn't know about the spacebar / binocs thing. I'll try that as well.
But what I've always done is man the deck gun myself and fire 1 shot. After that (after you exit the deck gun) they will fire.

Also make sure you aren't rigged for silent running.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

any chance you didn't click on the ammo itself on the right when you have control of the gun? the only type you have with the deck gun is HE, so far

[minute]

First thing would be to check if the ammo is loaded.

Then check the firing orders under the deck gun section in of the watch officer. There is a range setting that may affect firing, having the wrong range selected may result in a confused crew...

[papa_smurf]

Have you got the watch officer to set the deck gun to fire at will? Or you can attack a target by using your binoculars and pressing spacebar when centred on the target so your gun crew will fire at it.

[von hally]

i think your problem is the menu to the side of the watch officer...if your firing at will but the range is set wrong in the menu..the guns wont fire even at order of "fire at will" make sure if your target is close range...set click the "fire at close range" part of the menu....hope this helps

[joho]

i think your problem is the menu to the side of the watch officer...if your firing at will but the range is set wrong in the menu..the guns wont fire even at order of "fire at will" make sure if your target is close range...set click the "fire at close range" part of the menu....hope this helps



Will they open fire if the target is within a certain rane. Ex if I select long range do they open fire upon targets in close range?

[Jimbuna]

They will fire at the nearest target unless you click on the icon for warship or hit the spacebar whilst looking through your binoculars at the tergat of your choosing.

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[von hally]

lo mate

dont know if its the same problem i had ...but i was ordering my watch officer to "fire at will" upon a merchant at say 800m...and nothing was happening, but if i took control of the deck gun myself there was no problem....then i noticed the menu at the side of the watch officer when you click on him-then deck gun- the range was medium...as soon as i set this to close range the guns fired.....i dont know exactly when close range goes to medium then long range but i assume close range to be 1-1000m...so anything over set the menu to medium then long

hope this helps:up: