AA-guns on deck-gun.....

[Bulkhead]

I have the SH4 gold edition witch contained a recognition manual. In the back pages of this book it looks like some of the subs have 3 AA-guns fittings and only one deck-gun, with one of the AA-guns on the deck in front of the conning tower.
Is this just for teasing or is it possible?

[Propy]

Good question, I dont think thats possible. I too have seen that and I have seen a pic where the sub had two deckguns! I would rather have that working...

Its strange that they take these pictures, ingame, and then its not possible to play like that...

[Bulkhead]

Well, two deck-guns is working. What i would like is to replace one of the deck-guns with a AA-gun and have 3 AA-gund. The aft and front in the conning tower and the one in front of the C-tower down at the deck.

[Propy]

Oh...its working? how did you manage that? Sorry I know that it was you that asked a question...but I really would like to know...

[Bulkhead]

You just have to wait till the year turns to 1945...

[Propy]

aha! Thanks a lot! Are you sure its not the same for you with the AA guns?

[Bulkhead]

I dont know, i cant seem too place any AA-guns down on the deck at all....

[Propy]

I tried to find any facts about how many AA-guns real subs had, became intrested myself. Couldnt find anything about 3 AA-guns...but all the pics and facts I found shows two at most. I dont think they used more than that...not during WWII anyway.

[Bulkhead]

Wierd... Looking at the 1944 edition of the gato and it have two 1-man AA-guns, one 40mm flak-gun at the aft part of the C-twr and a deck-gun at the aft deck.
And the 1943 edition of the Sargo class, a deck-gun at the fore deck two 20mm AA-guns at the fore and aft C-twr and a 20mm at aft deck.
Is it just for show in the book?

[manucapo]

german U-boats as far as i know
by late war
carried 3 flack guns
and sometimes a big vierling flak gun where the aft deck gun in us boats would be.

so it did happen in ww2 atleast for the germans

[Bulkhead]

Yes, the typeIX flak-gun. I`ve seen it on some videoclips for SH3.
But i want it on SH4 too....Well, probobly not happening anyway.
But just a little change of course. What AA-guns is working best? The 40mm flak or the 20mm machinegun?

[Fincuan]

You could probably produce any kind of mix of guns via editing the ActiveUserPlayerUnits.upc of the correct savegame in My Documents/SH4. If you wanted the changes to occur as a part of the current upgrade system, then you'd have to edit files in SH4/Data/UPCUnitsData.

[Bulkhead]

Thanks for the tip:)