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Originally Posted by bstanko6

I truly believe Otto Kretschmer was a surgeon with the deck gun. He used it many times, in many convoy battles. He used it after using up all torpedoes (which he reloaded) and long after he sank several ships while escorts were around!

In the right hands, the deck gun can be a scalpel.

Hardigan also used his deck gun effectivly. I love the deck gun in the three sub games i play and use the approach techniques described above. In SH5 though, tankers and armed liberty ships can be tough with 3000+ ranges so i also remain heavy at 5 meters for a faster submerge time in case things go 'not according to plan'. In any case i seldom invest more than one eel per vessel; rising after the convoy has passed to finish the cripples with the gun. In AoD the fog feature is terrific for getting close with the gun and small Ranger tankers in fog in SHV( they burn so well) is great cover...but always heavy at 5 in case the fog lightens or lifts suddenly. In SHV alert escorts will race back from some distance to rescue cripples so speedy gunnery and caution is advisable.