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Enemy Guns and You
My super-duper IXD/2 is currently shadowing a convoy in the daylight hours in June 1943, 'cause I'm hoping to make a nighttime surface attack on account of my dismal torpedo reload times. This means deck gun fun, of course. However, I'm willing to bet that the unescorted convoy I'm pursuing will have at least one or two armed vessels.
Small deck guns in the 3-4" range are bad news for U-boat hulls. Therefore, I need to knock them out. I've had luck doing this with the deck gun, but have yet to see any success with torpedoes or with AAA fire. I've emptied a magazine or two of heavy caliber AAA in the general direction of a gun to no effect and I've put a torpedo right under a gun before, to no effect.
Am I just a lousy shot or are gun crews immune to anything other than 105mm fire?
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Reinhard Dietz
U-126
2. Unterseebootsflottille, Lorient
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