Those huge guns on the Nelson ...

[BettingUrlife]

are completely real!! I slipped into Loch Ewe the other day, and approached that spot were the Nelson is usually located. I'm not sure what happened, but I got to within about 500m of it and noticed that guns of Nelson were rotating ... towards me! Somehow I must have accidentally tapped the 's' key and didn't notice that I had popped up to the surface. I got 9 rounds of 16' right in the face :rotfl:

[Der Schatten]

Whoa! I never thought of that (Thinking how I can get my friend to believe me when I tell him it's ok to surface and take him out with the deck gun....this has potential!....insert evil laugh here!)

[RAM]

I think that's one of the unrealistic points of SHIII. In real life had one Nelson spotted an U-boat surfacing nearby they won't have waited for the 16'' turrets to turn and fire against the threat...

the U-boat would've been subjected to an immediate hailstorm of 6 inch fire from the Battleship secondaries, tho...and a maremagnum of light fire too. But I doubt they'd have even tried to point those massive guns towards a submarine.

[BettingUrlife]

I seriously doubt that they could have got the necessary crew to man everything that would have been required in order to shoot so quickly. And I also doubt the guns could be depressed so low at such a small target. Anyway it was pretty funny to watch.

[Godalmighty83]

the sub would have been ripped topieces by heavy machine gun and secondary weapon fire long before those guns would have turned around.

[StaplerFahrer]

I think that's one of the unrealistic points of SHIII. In real life had one Nelson spotted an U-boat surfacing nearby they won't have waited for the 16'' turrets to turn and fire against the threat...

the U-boat would've been subjected to an immediate hailstorm of 6 inch fire from the Battleship secondaries, tho...and a maremagnum of light fire too. But I doubt they'd have even tried to point those massive guns towards a submarine.

Actually, this DOES happen. Battleships will engage you and other ships with everything they've got, including secondaries.

One time I was making a mission with stationary battleships all around my sub to test out torpedo power. Unfortunately, I failed to realize that I hadn't made my sub submerged. The instant the mission begins I get a "we're under attack!" message. I climb up to the bridge to see the searchlights of the King George V, Nelson, and Revenge battleships all trained on me, and a second later they all open up with their secondaries. Soon they've rotated their main batteries into position, and kill me instantly. Ouch.