I have not been using it much,the deckgun that is, since 1.5 Gold but today I did get to put it to good use. I had blasted a convoy sinking two and hitting a third.
The two went down fast but a strange thing happened to the third one..never had this happen before...
The darned thing hung on the surface,refused to sink, and I didn't get a kill credit.
The strang thing I mentioned above, was that I moved out of destroyer detection range...surfaced at a dead stop... and watched on radar. The surviving convoy moved on but 3 Jap Destroyers hung around for 3 full days...and the cripple,after 3 days, was still hanging on the surface!!!
BTW-The only reason I hung around for whole 3 days watching was I needed to fulfiull my Mission Objective of Patroling the area, so couldn't leave the area.
If there had not been 3 Destroyers (you can see their smoke in above) I would have tried to take 1 of them ot at least..but 3 ..no way..
Patience payed off. Finally they did leave to return to escort duty and I had a chance to surface and use the deck gun manually. I could not torpedo or let the crew man the deckgun because the "criple' wasn't showing up as a target. Not on radar,TBT, the 'scope or binoculars. But anyway, after 5 hits below the stern hull waterline it went down and I got my credit. All that for a lousy AFT of less than 2,000 tons no less...
And that is my use for a deckgun.
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