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Originally Posted by sublynx
Surface attack against a warship reveals one major flaw in the game engine. Smaller caliber weaponry is not simulated too well. Even a destroyer or maybe even an armed trawler would have had some serious firepower from 20 mm, 13.7 mm and 7.92 mm AA guns, machine guns and rifles. The automatic weapons would have wiped the U-boat gunners off the decks in no time.
Even if the gunners would somehow have survived they wouldn't have had a chance to shoot many shots as the ammo would have needed to be carried to the gun. The loading process of forming a long line of u-boat crewmen passing ammo forward to the deck gun is not simulated either.
There are no trenches or foxholes on a U-boat deck. Small arms fire from a warship comes from a higher point, from multiple places and from better cover. An interesting description of a surface battle against a destroyer and a U-boat can be found if one googles USS Borie.
I find descriptions about voluntary surface attacks against warships a bit irritating, because I take history and simulations too seriously  But in the end the main point here is having fun. So if you like sinking warships with surface attacks - SINK 'EM ALL!!  |
We had some charger a few months back bragging about how he sank a BB (in stock, of course) with his deck gun, so the original game was certainly flawed.
My assumption is that anything with a gun can kill me before I can kill it, so I treat them as airplanes. Duking it out with a deck-gun is a career-killer.