My point was that if the deckguns are very effective weapons in SH4 they will be used ahistorically. Since they were NOT used in this fashion in RL, making them more effective is a pointless excercise in terms of simulation.
If you want to simulate US sub surface actions, attack sampans. If you want a fantasy game with US subs, go ahaead and use the deck gun. <shrug>
As for the KM, I don't care about KM vets in the least, frankly, if I could rewrite history, not a single u-boat would have survived. I have a german surname, myself, so what. Fighting for ww2 Germany was wrong, period. Every minute the KM lengthened the war cost countless lives on all sides (I suppose we could divide however many tens of millions of dead by the number of minutes in the war to nail down a number). There is no rational way to look at their contribution other than it furthered murder on a frightening scale (in addition to the murder of the merchant sailors directly killed).
I would not insult a modern day player of a ww2 u-boat game for playing the game, they are not the people in the RL period. I have no problems in the least insulting those that aided Nazi Germany by action, or inaction, they deserve it.
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