Uboat.net has been my primary "source" website. However, without going into detail, even Uboat.net has long before today been shown to contain periodic mistakes.
Many other sites have information that conflicts with other sites and you can consider each of them "fairly reliable" sources and I am certain that each webmaster has the best of intentions....
NOW... if you want to impress me with data... quote from Clay Blair's works as I consider him to be one of the top two U-boat research gods... the other being Horst Bredow of the Uboat Archiv.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that I have not carefully considered the deck gun issue. There have been miles of strenous discussion regarding the same before many of you came here.
I have read all of your complaints and sources regarding the DG and have taken them under advisement.
You have all made your points.
There will be some changes to the deck gun in our upcoming update. (hopefully in 2-3 weeks) However, the deck gun was a secondary weapon in real life and it will remain officially so in GW.
If you must, then you can consider it to be an arbitrary decision by me.
An interesting tidbit for you... in stock SH3... Uboat AP rounds did less damage than HE rounds according to the numbers I have seen while modding that file. Furthermore, I have yet to see any reference to "armor penetration" in the SH3 files while modding weapon profiles.
Simply nerfing the HP damage potential upwards for the AP round... DOES NOT reflect the intended nature or characteristics of an AP round. Therefore it makes the concept of an AP round in SH3 rather useless...
... so we dropped it in-line with source data that either conflicted and/or did not include a stated ammo load-out for different boats.
NOWHERE have I seen a listing of how many AP rounds were carried by each boat.
Uboat.net (with a little digging) gives a "total number of rounds carried" listing for each boat, and this is what we went by.
Even further in stock SH3... The first round would be fired from the deck gun instantly as if it had been loaded all along. Another benefit of dropping the AP round type causes the SH3 Uboat crew to load the next available round type (HE) and restored the load-time for the first round in the process.
So you see, there is a reason for everything... even the things I have not discussed here... which I will cover when the changes are made for the update.
This is the GW Eratta Report thread... not a deck gun discussion thread.
If you aren't happy with it feel free to mod it for your game however you wish to. Only you can make you happy in the end.
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