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neilbyrne · 12-26-13, 04:59 PM

Found it!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...+aft+deck+guns

This thread is from '09 and talks about getting crew for the second 5"/25 you can get in BALAO & TENCH Class boats.

However, I tried what's suggested about deleting the phrase "Additional Repository" where appearing in the crewmember stations assigned as gun crew slots and it worked. TROUT now has a fwd deck gun and slots for the crew.

There's another thread dating from like '07 that talks about how to move the deck gun back, but that looked to be beyond my feeble skills.

I just test drove this fix and it works altho testing the guns revealed another very strange aspect of what this refit did. According to the picture of TROUT on the systems screen, she still has her 5"/51 aft, a 40mm on the fwd conning tower extention and a twin 20mm on the cigarette deck aft.

The crew screen tho, shows crew slots for the fwd 4"/50 (which I changed fm the 3"/50), the 40mm and two 20mm. When I got u/w for the sea trial, I filled all the gunner slots, test fired the guns and all was well, kind of. When I took a target under fire on our stbd beam, the twin cylindrical magazines of a 20mm gun obscured our sight picture for the 4"/50. I went to external view and sure enuf, behind the base of the four inch mount you can see two tripod legs for a 20mm mount. So somehow the yardbirds at Midway figured out how to mount a 4"/50 atop a 20mm and have them share the same space while still remaining functional. Some trick. So the only degradation is you can't engage targets abaft the beam w/ the 4". I didn't test that 20mm, I'll never man it.

In any case, TROUT has her gun battery back.

12-26-13, 04:59 PM	#3
neilbyrne Torpedoman Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 118 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Found it! http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...+aft+deck+guns This thread is from '09 and talks about getting crew for the second 5"/25 you can get in BALAO & TENCH Class boats. However, I tried what's suggested about deleting the phrase "Additional Repository" where appearing in the crewmember stations assigned as gun crew slots and it worked. TROUT now has a fwd deck gun and slots for the crew. There's another thread dating from like '07 that talks about how to move the deck gun back, but that looked to be beyond my feeble skills. I just test drove this fix and it works altho testing the guns revealed another very strange aspect of what this refit did. According to the picture of TROUT on the systems screen, she still has her 5"/51 aft, a 40mm on the fwd conning tower extention and a twin 20mm on the cigarette deck aft. The crew screen tho, shows crew slots for the fwd 4"/50 (which I changed fm the 3"/50), the 40mm and two 20mm. When I got u/w for the sea trial, I filled all the gunner slots, test fired the guns and all was well, kind of. When I took a target under fire on our stbd beam, the twin cylindrical magazines of a 20mm gun obscured our sight picture for the 4"/50. I went to external view and sure enuf, behind the base of the four inch mount you can see two tripod legs for a 20mm mount. So somehow the yardbirds at Midway figured out how to mount a 4"/50 atop a 20mm and have them share the same space while still remaining functional. Some trick. So the only degradation is you can't engage targets abaft the beam w/ the 4". I didn't test that 20mm, I'll never man it. In any case, TROUT has her gun battery back. __________________ Cordially, Neil CAPT USN (Ret.) Last edited by neilbyrne; 12-26-13 at 05:25 PM.