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Excalibur Bane · 07-27-07, 12:42 AM

I noticed they said in the patch notes, that gunners get better if they continue firing at the same target (Not the exact quote but you get the idea) which is odd, because I've experienced almost exactly the opposite. I often surface at night to engage lone or pair merchants that are unescorted. I ran into a pair of tankers, both with fore and aft gun mountings and both of them raining shells on me and they hit me twice in about 10 mins of continous exchanges (I don't man the deckgun myself). On top of that, the merchants guns do little to no damage at all. Neither of the two shells that hit, left a mark on the hull or produced any damage. Not even a "We're under attack, sir!" per usual. Though I've noticed they will now train the AA guns on you when you get in range, I don't remember them doing that in 1.2

I sat and watched the gunners with the binoculars and they either shot about 200 feet in front of their own ship or fired at a 70 degree angle in the air. That's some pretty weird gunning for a merchant ship, they can't be THAT bad.

07-27-07, 12:42 AM	#7
Excalibur Bane XO Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 429 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	I noticed they said in the patch notes, that gunners get better if they continue firing at the same target (Not the exact quote but you get the idea) which is odd, because I've experienced almost exactly the opposite. I often surface at night to engage lone or pair merchants that are unescorted. I ran into a pair of tankers, both with fore and aft gun mountings and both of them raining shells on me and they hit me twice in about 10 mins of continous exchanges (I don't man the deckgun myself). On top of that, the merchants guns do little to no damage at all. Neither of the two shells that hit, left a mark on the hull or produced any damage. Not even a "We're under attack, sir!" per usual. Though I've noticed they will now train the AA guns on you when you get in range, I don't remember them doing that in 1.2 I sat and watched the gunners with the binoculars and they either shot about 200 feet in front of their own ship or fired at a 70 degree angle in the air. That's some pretty weird gunning for a merchant ship, they can't be THAT bad.