In fact the deck gun issue has been commented extensively by the RFB team. I also felt that, even though the stock one was brutally overpowered, the one in RFB (and RuB, for that matter) was vastly underpowered if the various accounts by sub skippers are to be trusted.
However, it is underpowered on purpose to reflect that even Stevie Wonder would have perfect aim the way SH4 is (the gun hardly rocks in high seas and it's in fact rather easy to hit things accurately without even zooming in).
It's a compromise really. You can put all your shells mostly where you want to, so if shell effectiveness were up to historical standards, the gun would STILL be overpowered based on the perfect hit rate and the complete lack of duds, ricochets, etc.
EDIT: Feltan is in fact completely right, at least in my experience.
With the latest RFB, it took about two dozen shells to sink a sampan.
Of course, the damage model in RFB / NSM probably doesn't have sampans as a priority and I understand any slips in this department, but it was rather strange when I came across a group of four and it took me about two hours of game time to send them all to the bottom with the deck gun.
And yes, I spread all my shots. In fact they didn't even "sink" as such, they just ended up catching fire, then sunk.
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