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Originally Posted by Skunkito
Can you specifically target the gun on the merchant and take it out first? Or does it carry on firing?
(newbie question I know)
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Last night I did this very thing. Again I thought I'd give the deck gun another go against a large merchant at night. I fired the first shot at him and then saw an orange flash on his deck structures. Great! I thought, hit him first time, but then I saw my shell land short of his boat with a splash, shortly followed by his shell whizzing over my head. So now I knew where the gun was (he only had the one able to fire on me). I fired a couple more shots only, and the second hit around the same area of his boat that the gun was positioned, causing one of those epic explosions with fountains of orange debris. After that he didn't return fire at all. Call it blind luck, but you definately can target those guns and put them out of action as I did. On a side note, one thing that really helped me in these recent gun battles I've been having is to head straight for his boat, in my case at a slow speed. You have to manually adjust your range constantly, but then so does he, and at least in these encounters he didn't seem too good at it- this is where I got the advantage I needed.