Do you really eat out of that mouth?
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Originally Posted by Beery
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Originally Posted by Hitman
Beery, you have found lots of good info about the US subs, but have you thought about digging a bit in the submarines that used the deck gun most? I mean the WW1 german U-Boots. I think I have readed somewhere interesting info about that subject regarding WW1 german subs, only I can't remember where right now :hmm: Narwhal was heavily based in the german U-Kreuzers, so the idea sparked in my mind  |
I haven't considered WW1 subs because the WW1 submarine war was so different. In WW2 air attack was a real threat and subs didn't have time to mess around so they usually sank a ship while the crew was on board, whereas in WW1 sub commanders usually let the merchant crew get off the ship prior to sinking her. This had a huge potential effect on damage control and therefore gunfire effectiveness. As for reload speed I'd be interested in seeing details from WW1 but it wouldn't be useful for RFB as we already have details from WW2 subs, but it would be interesting to see if WW1 subs had a similarly slow ROF. I expect they'd be slower because US subs in WW2 had a lot of attention paid to deck gun placement and ammo supply. Because of this we see a difference in the ROF of US subs compared to German subs (the WW2 German subs reload even slower). |