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Old 12-26-07, 12:56 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by MCM
...but i read in a book...
As with the internet, anyone can write anything in a book. It would help if you could remember which book, and exactly what was said, and whether he cited references.

The deck gun was usually used for very small targets, or to finish off a ship which had already been abandoned by the crew. The real problem was that submarines were in even more danger than the game allows; in real life it would only take one penetration of the pressure hull, and the submarine was suddenly a very poor surface ship, unable to dive and very vulnerable.
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