Originally Posted by WAKDADDY
I'm a three week old nube,,, SHIII,,,, so I'm by no means an authority on this,,, but,,,
deck guns seem to be affected by the course and speed of the target, and the U-boat. In addition,, if the sea is marginally rough,,, fire off the bow, and wait for the deck to descend. It seems the deck gun can compensate for the boat dropping out from under it,,, but not for the boat rising up,,, forcing your shots high.
That is off course,,, if you are manually firing the deck gun. The crew mode,,, well,,, the angle of error is what,,, 5% or more,,,, and at 6000 yards,,, that's a big miss.
I tried the long distance shot,,, and found it very hard to range in on target. 1 damaged tanker, with 3 merchants,,, the only remnants left of a large convoy. Of course, the merchants had deck guns,,, so staying at range allowed my 105 to hit, while they couldn't even get off a shot. But,, a bunch of ammo went into the water,,, and it was very hard to judge where the last shots feel to correct fire.
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