You're saying that we should leave two spots open on the damage control team because they get filled during the "upgrade process"? This makes the bug disappear?

I haven't been following the SH4 bug saga, but I'm guessing that 1.3 is the end of the road, correct? This is a pretty big bug to still be in the game.

Had a save game before docking at freemantle to get conning tower upgrade, gunners were in damage control slots when I docked and got conning tower upgrade message, not only did DG slots disaappear, automaicaly got a rear mount deck gun. anyhow whent back to save game and tried with gunners in gun slots and same thing happend as above. Any how , managed to fix it in by following Coletrains advice, :up: :arrgh!:

Note to all: I used info from Coletrains' fix to let me get my Balao's dual deck guns both manned. For more info, see this thread:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=121460

Coletrains: Again, Thank you VERY MUCH for posting how to fix this. It made my deck gunning much more enjoyable!:up:

Problem is, there is no slot to put the crewmen into. The slots disappear as do the crewmen who where manning the gun while it was on the bow. Move it to the stern and poof, slots for the crew are missing as well as the crew. Move it back to the bow and the slots and crew return. You can do this back and forth but you want get a crew slot or even a icon for the stern gun at all. This has happened to me with a clean install and patched to 1.4 and with the RSRD Mod installed with no other mods.
Even starting a new campaign want fix this problem. Tried starting a new one 5 - 6 times and each time I had the same effect when I tried to install a gun on the stern.

Just by the game and have exactly the same problem. Disappearing slot for deck gun.

Try to reinstall again with the last UBI patch 1.4 install/uninstall TMO 1.4 mod but still the same thing.

As soon as you move your gun from bow to stern slot just disappear (and i my case won't go back). I manage to fix this problem more less following Coletrains explication.

Now I can play but I am disappointed thing I going back to SH3

I'm having the same problem as SgtWalt65. My deck gun is located aft of the conning tower and when I tried to move it to the bow the deck gun crew slots disappeared. When I moved it back to the aft the slots magically appeared again along with my two missing crew. Any ideas?

Deck gun crew slots !
 

I've just started having this problem and can't seem to get the slots back no matter what I try. Tried something along the lines of Coletrains tip and also loaded up my new copy of 1.5, still no deck gun crew slots. The problems started just after I upgraded my AA guns to the twin mounts.

I only noticed when I surfaced to finnish off a crippled merchant with my deck gun and found my crew didn't want to man the gun :damn:

Does anybody know if there is a way I can 'force' a transfer/reassignment to a new boat ?

I have this problem too, with a few minor diffrences. I currently use RFB+RSRD for 1.5. The sub class is Salmon, gun type 3in50cal with a crew of 6. I followed the instuctions on how to fix this but I noticed I thing that is different than what the instuctions say. That is the compartments for the fore and aft deck gun aren't 7 and 8 but rather 8 and 9. I don't think its it should matter that much. Can someone help?!

It won't matter. RFB has done a lot of work with the ship damage model adding things to stock to give us a more realistic sub to drive. The guys are very thorough in their modding and you can use the instructions to restore the gun crew with RFB. It has worked for me in the past though I have not had to do it with the latest version.