deck gun / weather

[elite_hunter_sh3]

yea i know too many posts on this but i cant FIND THEM

how do i make deck gun available use in heavy weather

[Torvald Von Mansee]

yea i know too many posts on this but i cant FIND THEM

how do i make deck gun available use in heavy weather
You can't!!! It's not supposed to be safe in heavy weather. It sucks outside of the stock game, anyway.

EDIT: It now occurs to me you actually wish to disable this feature. I'm uncertain how to do that.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

well lets see there is very little wind but there is rain and i got 4 pt boats annoying me and i cant use my deck gun and im in gibraltar strait and i got 2 recharge batteries and come up for air.

i know u can edit cfg files but i forgot wut lines and wut file.

[elite_hunter_sh3]

anyone know wut lines to edit and wut file??

[kylania]

I want to say it's in the *.sim files or the basic.cfg file? Not sure, I'd look for a mod that has that feature, such as the Kids SH3 mod recently posted here and see how they did it.

[SquareSteelBar]

Hi elite_hunter_sh3,

have a look:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=92975&highlight=deck+storm

Greetings,
SSB

[elite_hunter_sh3]

thnx very much :rock::up:

[The Munster]

Wots frustrating about this situation is meeting a Merchant that has 'a sting in his tail' [peashooter] that opens fire so you try to show him what a real deck gun does only to be informed that your gun cannot be used in rough weather ?! Hang on a minute.. the Merchant can use theirs so wot's the difference ? So, to err on the side of caution you go to periscope depth only to find the Merchant now goes to 'warp factor 7' and you can't keep up with it; Dilemma or wot ?!

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

Wots frustrating about this situation is meeting a Merchant that has 'a sting in his tail' [peashooter] that opens fire so you try to show him what a real deck gun does only to be informed that your gun cannot be used in rough weather ?! Hang on a minute.. the Merchant can use theirs so wot's the difference ? So, to err on the side of caution you go to periscope depth only to find the Merchant now goes to 'warp factor 7' and you can't keep up with it; Dilemma or wot ?!


What's the difference? Lessee . . .

The merchant gunner is standing on a platform about 20 meters above the waves, while the U-boat gunner is standing on the deckplate which, in rough weather, is underwater more often than above. One gets washed overboard, one doesn't.

Albrecht von Hesse

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

well lets see there is very little wind but there is rain and i got 4 pt boats annoying me and i cant use my deck gun and im in gibraltar strait and i got 2 recharge batteries and come up for air.

i know u can edit cfg files but i forgot wut lines and wut file.

I had similar fun today. Three-quarters of the way through the Strait on batteries. Calm sea, gibbous moon. Peeked around before surfacing to refresh air (batteries weren't a problem; you can go a lo-ooooong way running at 1 kt) only to get spotted by an Elco.

Ten minutes later had 15 Elco boats and three destroyers looking for me, and I still needed fresh air. I managed to creep along the north coast of Africa and back out to the Atlantic, but I don't think I could have done that '43 onwards.

Made for an exciting lil time, yes yes.

Albrecht von Hesse

[elite_hunter_sh3]

now i have a new problem i want AP shells (which r stronger then HE right??) and im in the middle of a convoy, no escorts weak cargos and i want to use my deck gun so how do i get ap rounds again?

[Spellir_74]

Click f10. Now you're at the deck gun position. The ammo option will be there at screen bottom right; (double?) click what you want.

{There might be another way...

Something like...

Click weapons officer and find the ammo sub-page --or click 'i' keyboard-- and then click the ammo type you want to use.}

As far as which ammo type is stronger...

AP might only be better when aimed at waterline against military vessels. I heard that somewhere maybe? It depends on how the sim is modeled.

[Tuddley3]

You can find this mod at UBRS. It's title simply as "Bad Weather Guns"

[Kpt. Lehmann]

yea i know too many posts on this but i cant FIND THEM

how do i make deck gun available use in heavy weather

This is easy to mod yourself.
Open your NSS_UboatXX.cfg file (with notepad or another texteditor) (data\Submarine\NSS_Uboatxx\NSS_UboatXX.cfg) and change the values for "stormconditions" to the value you prefer.

I don't recommend messing with the precipitation values as the side effect is this value also controls the point where crew change clothes to sou-west caps and oilskins.

For those using GW, these values have already been set at a reasonable default level that doesn't have your crew operating under-water, LOL. :arrgh!: