to be honest, if i were you i would enjoy it. Cause i guarantee that later in the campaign, you wont be using your deck gun......at ALL. past maybe....... 1942 i used my deck gun ONCE to sink a small freighter that had been struck and fell behind from a convoy, one of the .0001% of ships that DIDNT have a deck gun. Trust me, id take the opportunity. Besides, to sink a cimmaron tanker (very common) you hve to expend maybe 30-40 shells of HE to sink it.
think of it this way. a 3.46 Inch shell, fired from a couple hundred meters/ one or two kilometers hits a ship. A merchant has zero armor. These shells are powerful considering that a merchant has no armor and it fairly often had some sort of ammo or fuel that could easily blow up. not to mention its own fuel and engine.
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