How come I never have any ammo for my deck gun?

[jimmyjam25]

No matter if I'm doing campaign or single mission It always says I have no ammo for deck gun. Always have flak gun ammo... Its really annoying me!

[Gargamel]

In the gun screen or the ammo info screen?

If the gun, you need to load the gun. If info, bad file somewhere. Check your .cfg's for typos.

[Raptor]

Gargamel is spot on - you have to man the deck gun and load the first shell before it will fire. To do this, issue the "man the deck gun" command then hit F10 to take you to the deck gun. Click on the shell type you want and the crew will load the round. After that, reloading is automatic. I usually do this immediately upon starting a patrol from my base. I also set the Watch Officer's parameters for using both the deck and flak guns as well. When you do actually need them, it may be too late to realize you're running the SH3 default settings and the gun crews just stand there watching the boat get shot to pieces.


However, if neither of Gargamel's suggestions work for you....


Use the Additional Ammo Mod for GWX. As an example (250 deck gun rounds 10.5 and/or 8.8cm...and bear in mind only HE rounds are included with GWX):

http://www.gamefront.com/files/12858...tional_Ammo_7z




OR change it yourself.

There are TWO sets of values you must change in /SilentHunterIII/data/Cfg/Basic.cfg/
make these values anything you want; 250 and 3000 are the GWX defaults


Located after [Torpedo_Type10] and before [Color_0]

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS1] ;105mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=250

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS2] ;88mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=250

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS3] ;37mm
MaxAmmoPerSlot=3000

[SUBMARINE_AMMOLIMITS4] ;20mm
;MaxAmmoPerSlot=3000
MaxAmmoPerSlot=3000




Located further down, after [Conning_Type12] almost at the end of the file

[AMMO_TYPE0];10.5cm SK C/32
Idx=0
Year=1939
Month=1
;AP=40 <= these are the stock SH3 default values
;HE=160


;SS=20
AP=0 <= these are the default values in GWX
HE=250
SS=0
Renown=0

[AMMO_TYPE1];8.8cm SK C/35
Idx=1
Year=1939
Month=1
;AP=40 <= these are the stock SH3 default values
;HE=160
;SS=40
AP=0 <= these are the default values in GWX
HE=250
SS=0
Renown=0


[AMMO_TYPE2] thru [AMMO_TYPE10] are for the AA guns. Change values if you wish. GWX default is 3000.

[Jimbuna]

Above link doesn't appear to be working...here is the original:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20814...tional_Ammo_7z

[GT182]

Jim it's not working, nor is the GWX3.0 link in your sig. At least not from my computer. Gamefront keeps timing out for me, as it has for the last 2 days.

[Jimbuna]

Working fine at this end and I'm currently on a dongle at work