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Originally Posted by scottj63
I ran into an armed trawler and found out the hard way the water was to rough for my deck gun but we got away.
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Always check out what your watch crew is wearing.
If the weather state is within the parameters the game designates as "storm conditions" for your type boat, the watch crew will be in their oilskins instead of their regular clothes/uniforms.
The same parameters determine whether or not you can use your guns.
So if the crew on the bridge is dressed for bad weather, you will not be able to man the guns.
The only drawback is that the crew cannot change into their oilskins while on station - so if the weather was fair, but then gets bad, and you remained on the surface the whole time and did not rotate the watch crew after the weather got too rough, nobody will have changed their gear. Two ways to know for sure: dive and resurface, and everyone who goes to the bridge will be wearing the proper gear for the prevailing conditions. Or just take one guy off the bridge, move him below, and then put him (or somebody else) back up on the bridge again. If he's changed into oilskins while he was below, the weather's gotten too bad to use the guns.
I do this a lot because with Commander running the "no fatigue" option I don't rotate the bridge crew regularly. If it looks to me like the weather is getting rough, and particularly if I've got an enemy contact that I may be attacking soon, I will switch a guy down and back just to check on whether I can plan on using the guns or will have to rely on torpedoes only.