Sinking a merchant with AA gun?

[Ronin1975]

Hi, yesterday I encounterd a merchant and fired my last torpedo at her. It was a hit, but she didn't sink. So I surfaced and orderd my deck gun crew to open fire upon the merchant. It did take a long time...too long for me and I decided to help by shooting with the AA gun. The merchant was shooting at us as well.

All of a sudden explosions occurd everywhere I shoot and she started sinking.

So my thoughts are:

1) When i order my deck gun crew to shoot at her water line, can I shoot at the Merchant gunners with the AA gun. Can you actually kill enemy sailors (specially their gunners?)

Usually I never use my AA guns, when a plane contact is made, I dive and I dive deep. So it would be kinda nice to use the AA gun at merchants.

[Sledgehammer427]

answer to question (1)
for some odd reason, when i try to hit the men crewing the guns aboard enemy merchants, they just dont die....but, again for some strange reason, all the other men cower in fear and subsequently die when i hit a bunch of crates nearby

odd occurances, i keep hearing "the philadelphia experiment"....invincible DG crews.

-edit: of course i forget the point behind this reply, but every person has their tastes about sinking island-nation steel. if i get mad i rake the decks with the AA so dont feel alone, but im not sure if you would want to just use AA rounds, but im sure you know this, therefore negating the last remark

[Mush Martin]

its been my experience that you can knock out individual gun mounts.

[Overkill]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

its been my experience that you can knock out individual gun mounts.

With the deck gun or AA guns?

[Schnee]

....I guess it depends on the calibre of the AA gun. With .50 cal/20 mm, I've found them to be borderline useless even on fishing vessels. However, once I acquired a Balao class and upgraded the AA mounts to 40 mm, its easy to sink fishing vessels.

Don't know how effective it would be on merchents - I suspect the ship would have to be really crippled and you would have to get pretty up close and personal to do thew job. Even then it would take awhile.

As an aside - does anybody find the Jap gunners to be a little TOO good? Even at 2500 - 3000 yds?

[Ronin1975]

Thanks for the replies fellows

Originally Posted by Schnee

As an aside - does anybody find the Jap gunners to be a little TOO good? Even at 2500 - 3000 yds?

Yeah I do, even when the weather is bad they shoot very very good. Lots of hits on my beloved sub