Deck Gun
 

Welcome again:salute:
I want to ask All of You, do You mount Deck Gun or your boats and use it.
I always take deck gun it helped me attack small ships (even armed) but from large distance and i am shooting then( because crew isnt experienced enough for now).

I can use it if the situation allows for this ... if weather and other things are favorable, :yep:

I'm not much of deck gunner. It's good during early war when merchants are unarmed. Since I play always from -41 onwards it has been quite useless to me, save few distant shot as coup de grâce. It gets discarded for heavier AA armament after -42.

Absolutely, you can always make a surface attack at night or pop up right behind them and quickly take out their guns. When it comes to armament, the more the merrier... :yep:

I love my deck gun. Early in the war (and TBH I don't think I've ever played past early 1941) I prefer to use it if at all possible, either initially when first attacking if the situation permits, or as a followup to a first torpedo hit in order to finish off a damaged ship. I have way more gun ammo than eels, and there's nothing more fun than training a big ol' hunk of naval artillery on another ship and letting 'er rip.

Sometimes I order "feuer frei" and then go to external cam so I can really watch the boys at work. :D

The only real downside to this approach early in the war is if you're using the Q-ship mod and the poor lonely merchant you just opened fire on turns out to be a well armed decoy. Those guys? They shoot back! :doh:

The deck gun can be useful in finishing off the mortally wounded thereby saving you an eel or two but come mid 41 (even earlier for some merchantmen) don't ever lose sight of the fact your boat was intended to be used aggressively under the waters surface and is quite vulnerable to shellfire whilst surfaced.

Did anyone mention the Q Ships? :03:

Just like a man, they never listen. :nope: :stare: :O:

(See my post directly above yours, big fella. :D)

I always carry the deck gun and will use it to finish off ships even late in the war. I also surprised myself a couple of weeks ago (after being forced to surface by damage) by sinking a Flower class. Third round hit the main gun, fifth or sixth took out the secondaries and I could sink it at my leisure. The deck gun became my new best friend!

I prefer to call them the $£%^&%^$ Q-ships. Bloody things still surprise me even now, but I can't bring myself to disable your mod.

No need....my comment was in direct reference to what you posted :DL

Good to see you around D :up:

Good to be around!

Same here. And I always forget about them until I disable a ship with a torpedo hit and then surface to finish it off with the gun, only to find shells whistling over my head and all the LI screaming at me about damage. :damn:

:salute:

Might be an idea to do a few different skins :hmmm:

I wasn't aware the deck gun could be removed. How is that done?

SH3 Commander can get rid of it for you.

Mind you, removing it makes absolutely no difference to the performance of your boat.