Flak against ships?

[Inajira]

Hi all,

In a recent voyage (Apr 1942) I managed to take out an Elco torpedo boat in the Carribbean, using my deck gun :lol: My brave crew managed to sink it with the trusty 10.5 despite the hail of return fire. I am wondering though, is there any modification I can make to get the crew to aim flak guns at surface targets...? Would have been great to get some more lead in the air and keep the Yankees' heads down, and perhaps poor Hans would have lived a little longer after I had given him the fateful order to man the flak gun just to see if it would work...!

Secondly I would also like to apply a "world" mod I downloaded here but one of the listed changes is that most of the destroyers are now set to Elite. I don't want that, they are hard enough to handle as it is! How could I circumvent (or change back) this particular setting?

Thanks!

[Wulfmann]

The AA guns can sink the coastal ships and Elcos but they have no real affect on the bigger ships (You can destroy the cargo on deck or life boats but not sink the ships)
As for elite just open the RND and SCR files and change all the escorts to something less but that is so wimpy, IMO, no offense.
Crew rating=4 to Crew rating =2. Click edit, then click "find" a box will open and type in crew rating= and it will automatically find the first one. Keep clicking "find next" until you come to a DD type you want to change.
Note; No mistakes in the RND or SCR files, they must be perfect!
I changed all of mine to veteran or Elite from the very beginning, much more challenging.
To each his own.

Wulfmann

[Inajira]

Thanks for the help! Subsequent to posting I found the answer in the SH3 wiki manual (about the flak guns), apparently I can target surface ships only if I'm willing to man the guns myself.

I will give the destroyer edit a try as well. I find once they have sighted me they quickly home on my position and although I dive deep and go silent running they keep circling, dropping charges etc. until I think they have finally gone, come to periscope depth to find they are still in the vicinity and they home in on me once again. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

[Myszkin]

(You can destroy the cargo on deck or life boats

Not only, You can destroy AA guns on ships too.