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Originally Posted by Jan Kyster
Since you asked for it... 
To put it simple and blunt, then I really don't care what anyone is armed with.
I can not know it in advance and I'm never gonna expose my boat to anything anytime anywhere on the surface...
Will never risk neither crew nor boat that way.
Learned that lesson the hard way...  |
I mostly agree with your opinion Jan as I don't like to take any hits either if I can help it. But Joe does have an interesting point. Sometimes you may be forced to gun it out on the surface, such as being in shallow water and a destroyer is after you withing a few hundred yards and you can't get a decent torpedo shot, you're too damaged to submerge without sinking, or perhaps you're out of torpedoes and that last merchie you torpedoed just won't sink.
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BUT, standing off, at a range of 600-1100 meters, as recommended in the U-Boat Commander's Handbook- these weapons should NOT pose a serious threat (a 'military threat') to the sub itself. To human flesh, they would certainly continue to be a real threat, so my gun crew and watch team would be at some risk, but to the integrity of the sub. Not so much.
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This makes absolute sense. Can this be modeled into the game I wonder?