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Hmm... I've never had that problem Feltan. Although, I do play with TMO not RFB. In fact, I just encountered a fleet of fishing boats the other day. I surfaced and went to work. I think the most shells a boat took was six and that was because she was quite a ways off and I kept tagging her mast.

I like to think that I have quite a bit of experience with deckguns. I really treasured my torpedos and quite frequently if the situation allowed it I would surface and use my gun instead of expending torpedos which I try to really save for juicy military targets or convoys.

It's entirely possible to punch holes below the water line. In fact, I've found that your crew is pretty adapt at it on it's own. Last night I spotted a single merchant in the Bungo Straits. She was riding very low in the water so I put two fish in her. One was right under the stack which is standard procedure and the other straight into the forward hold. I got a second explosion from the fish that went under the stack and just the impact spash from the one into the hold. Despite the two huge gaping holes, the list, and greatly reduced speed she didn't seem to intent on going down. So, I surface and put a few rounds in her. I was about 600 yards away so I eventually let my crew fire on it's one. With one shot under the waterline she went down. It was amazing, especially comsidering the fact that I couldn't get the elavation low enough myself to shoot under the water line.

When shooting for the waterline you want to see a column of water shoot up and then a flash from the shell hitting the hull.