[Raptor]

To use your deck and/or flak guns in any weather, open the sub type .cfg file and locate the line for Storm Conditions.

Change Storm Conditions=7,0.1; to =30,30.1 to allow use of guns in any weather conditions.



Example, for the type VIIB:

/Ubisoft/SilentHunterIII/Data/Submarine/NSS_Uboat7b.cfg

default:
StormConditions=7,0.1;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]

changed to:
StormConditions=30,30.1;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]


Note that you have change the .cfg file for EACH sub type you might play (VIIB, VIIC, VIIC41, IXB, IXC, etc.).




If your crew will man the guns when ordered to do so, but won't fire when the target is available (within the conditions you elected - range, target type, hold or fire at will, etc.), even during good weather, you've got a corrupted file somewhere. Even an unqualfied gun crew, with or without a watch officer on deck, should fire as ordered.


There is a thread here detailing a shortcut key setup that allows the watch officer to man, target, and unleash hell with the flak guns whenever you hear the dreaded "aircraft spotted". I'm assuming a similar sub-routine could do the same for the deck gun.