Deck Gun Power
 

Ahoy shipmates, is it possible to sink medium and large merchants with the deck gun when all out of eels?

I am currently hunting a convoy which i have sunk all its escorts and 2 large cargo vessels there is about 11 ships remaining and all i have left is my deck gun?

It depends on the version you're using. If you use he stock version you can sink a few ships just with the deck gun. If you're using GW/NYGM then it's a bit more difficult, as ships are tougher and can get more damage. In order to sink them you need to fire below the water-line.

Yeah, shoot below the water line.

Yes, I agree what you have said

Desk gun is designed for small ships, or ships damaged by torpedoes which does not worth a fish

If you want to use desk gun for big cargoes (C2/C3/T2/T3/troop transport/passenger linear), I usually strike it w. 1 fish (preferably explodes under draft) and surface and use desk gun to wipe the remaining HP out). In later war period, I will not use desk gun since all merchant ships are armed with guns
(except tug boat, fishing boat, etc.)

Then, when you run out of shells, you can start throwing stale "LuftWaffles" (tm). They'll do about the same amount of damage.:D

I reckon a Desk gun would only be for small ships and people. I could do with one here at work!:D

I only use my deck gun on dwarfs. Does that make me a bad person?

Are you kidding? I shoot dwarfs OUT OF my deck gun. "Der Kleine U-Boot Circus! Coming soon to a convoy near you!"

And it's possible to sink armed merchants with a deck gun. I did it the other night. It was fall of '41, and I took out the engines of a C3 cargo. While it was dead in the water, I maneuvered submerged so I was directly astern of it and surfaced. It only had a gun on its bow and it couldn't bring it to bear on me. I fired away at my leisure.

hahaha!! :D :D

agred with was has been said: if you use stock version you can sink almost anything with the deck gun (i have sunk tankers, c2, c3 and of course small merchants). you can sink quite a few until you run out of ammo. aim for waterline (so that it hits the ship and splashes). a trick i use is to have your watch officer tell you the range and then aim a bit SHORTER of that. my experience is that if you let the computer shoot for you, they wil aim for the "body" of the ship and it will generally take longer.

btw does anyone know if the arour-piercing or the highly explosive shells are especially good at sinking any kind of ships?? is there any strategy to be used?? ie. first armour piercing to open a hole, then highly explosives...??? or is armour piercing always best?

Of course you can tell them to aim at the waterline. I don't shoot the gun myself because real captains didn't...well, sometimes just for fun. Also, the crew is usually less accurate than the player.

I'm not sure what the difference is in the game. In real life nobody made an armor-piercing shell smaller than 6", and those were out of style by WWII, 8" being the smallest. There was a "semi-armor-piercing" or "common" shell, but submarines never carried it. Or starshells either. HE was it for the real u-boats.

When using stock...hit anywhere you fancy :D

Using a mod...hit below the waterline in numerous places :yep: :up: