rule of thumb: 6 miles/ 10 km. if you are playing a special mod, the modder may have increased the detection capability of the enemy. in that case, you may need to open the distance to 7 or 8 miles (11-13 km).
Great, I wasn't far off with 12 km. I'm using FotRSUE, btw.
absolute minimum rule-of-thumb: 6,000 yds/m. this value is stored in one of the CFG files. and may be adjusted.
The mod must have been adjusted or something's off: my tactical doctrine against large tanker-type ships is to soften them up with a Mk 16 or two, then engage with the 5" from 3000 meters plus. Earlier today, I engaged a LEO, IIRC, in the northern central Inland Sea in that manner but hadn't accounted sufficiently for momentum when stopping the engines. We drifted within 3000 m and began taking fire around 2940 m, which lasted until we could back up past 3 km again.
do you mean for you to shoot at planes? yes, but you will need to adjust the maximum elevation for the deck gun. most times they are limited to 40 degrees.
if you mean for the crew to shoot at planes with the deck gun like they do for ships, ....probably not. i ,personally, have never been able to do that but someone else MAY have. you would have to define the deck gun as an AA-gun, i suspect. let's put it this way, there is no quick and easy way to do this.
Pity. Yes, I wanted the crew to engage as I'm not proficient enough underway to engage aircraft.
no, but you can adjust the lethality of the AA shells. there are many mods that adjust those qualities.
Do you recall the distance at which they begin to burst? They're effective enough in the anti-surface role below that range, but I can't recall what it was.
i suspect that there are AP shells and HE shells to give the user a difference. AP shells will have higher penetrative definitions and HE would have more explosive definitions. here again, there are many mods that you can use to beef up either of these shell types such that you can use them interchangeably.
Was that a historical loadout? One thing that comes to mind from Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors was how the Japanese AP shells simply went through the hulls of the DD/CVE targets without exploding unless they contacted fairly substantial machinery. If this effect were already known by the USN, I wonder what targets they would have had in mind for the AP inventory. Or were there thick-skinned merchantmen that I'm unaware of?
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