Looks like I'm in for a treat. I got a shinny new one today:smug:

I've seen an equal number of people complain about deck gun placement and gun crew assignments and those having no trouble at all. I suspect it's a mod or patch application issue. I'm one that has no trouble with these on my modless (except for radar N/S fix) game.
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Finally got the Balao, after startin from a S boat as u can see on my sig.

have fun there ;) :up:

The Japanese took a big hit in the face thanks to this mod, I don't understand why my kids like full realism in games. This mod make my day more enjoyable.

Lol omg can you imagine having two deck guns :smug: would be more like a submerged destroyer than a sub lol, especially with the stock SHIV reload times it would be like having a death ray on your boat!:arrgh!:

No need for 2 Deck Guns man, just use my KillerSub Mod and you're a death machine :rotfl:

I love my Balao, and the highly experienced crew I got, that started out on a Tambor, grew into a Gato and now revel in the Balao.

I think I praised my Balao to high heaven in another thread, so I won't repeat it all. Instead I got a few questions.

First, how deep is it safe to go with it. On my metric depth gauge, the little red marker that indicates test-depth is literally off the chart at 160+ meters. Personally I've never taken her (why are ships always a her, even masculine pieces of power and raw aggression such as warships?) below 135 meters. Not had the need really, but also I am somewhat cautious.

And will merchant MG fire compromise the hull integrity. I know aircraft MG/Autocannon fire do, but I've yet to see any ill effects from merchant MG fire. Apart from injuring topside crew naturally. Reason I bring this up is that I got somewhat arrogant the other day. Had a crippled ship some 400 meters off, and the convoy it belonged to was slowly steaming away from it, at the point of the DD escort not possibly reaching me when I surfaced (7+ km), finished the cripple with deckgun and then slunk off again. I did though receive quite a few MG bullets for my altruistic euthenasia favour. :roll:

After that I did not go lower than 80 meters. You know, erring on the side of caution. No problems whatsoever. Where it not for my 70k+ tonnage sunk on that mission, I might have gone deeper, but 80 meters worked, and it is quite sufficient in most situations.

You can dive very deep in the Balao. 900 feet would be the maximum depth that you can dive to (in real life). But the game puts in an unrealistic crush depth of 650 feet (wayyy too shallow), so yeah, 650 feet is the maximum for the Balao in the game.

I hope that the devs change the crush depth to somewhere around 900-950 ft

USS Chooper any1???:arrgh!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chopper_%28SS-342%29

I agree with you Zylark, if my Balao gets so much as a scratch on her I am very cautious in taking her down too deep. I would think MG fire would compromise hull integrity though. I have taken her down to 555 feet when DD's are searching for me as at this depth you are pretty much safe from detection and depth charges. Though I have had my aft deck gun damaged while diving down which I think was around 400 odd feet when I incured that damage. I was under the impression that DC couldn't be set for such deep depths - maybe I was wrong.