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Originally Posted by SteamWake
There was a trick in SH3 where you could positon yourself between ships and end up having them shoot one another.
Also if you are too close to a ship their big guns cannot be trained low enough.
I havent seen this behaviour personally. As a matter of fact I ran accross a lone merchant which I decided to try to take out with deck gun only to save torps.
I was a bit dismayed when they started shooting back. On their third round they landed a shell nearly amidship and knocked half my crew silly and did some minor damage.
At great risk we decided to dive and repair and get the heck outa there.
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After finding out that I wasn't being shot at I wandered around the entire task force to see whether they thought I was too close. Other than jinking and rotating their guns from time to time they did nothing. I spent at least 4 game hours shooting from the deck gun and just looking at the scenery. My crew were very bored and spent most of the time sunbathing
Out of interest - there were two carriers in the task force. Both had small fires burning on their decks at exactly the same position long before I actually fired a shot at them.
Yes I mentioned a couple of posts up that I experienced a single merchant on the previous patrol do more damage to me than an entire task force!