The weather looks fine to me for shooting !!!

[ttraveler]

I am 200 meters from a solo unarmed merchant ship. I get a blasted error message saying that the seas are too rough to man the deck gun!?! What the heck is wrong with this game? The seas look fine to me! Besides, at 200 meters how can anyone miss?

PMO

[The Avon Lady]

Search The Community Manual for "wind speed".

[slow_n_ez]

Not really much of a true " simulation " when you give a direct order and its disobeyed is it ? .... Go grab the " Bad_weather_guns " mod and your crew will man the guns in any weather .......

[donut]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=38900

[ttraveler]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Search The Community Manual for "wind speed".

Thank you.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by slow_n_ez

Go grab the " Bad_weather_guns " mod and your crew will man the guns in any weather .......

http://home.arcor.de/gizzmoe/files/Bad_weather_guns.rar

Unpack to you main SH3 dir.

[Nedlam]

I think 200m is a little too close. I read somewhere 500m to 1100m is the best range for the deck gun. Under 500 isn't it impossible (unless you use the crosshairs) to hit the waterline?

[slow_n_ez]

Thanks Gizzmoe I was raking my mind trying to remember where I downloaded that fantanstic mod from .. thanks

[ttraveler]

Thanks again.

[frogdog]

Grabbed "bad weather guns mod". No read me/install instructions. How do you load mod? Thanks.

[Crym]

Originally Posted by Nedlam

I think 200m is a little too close. I read somewhere 500m to 1100m is the best range for the deck gun. Under 500 isn't it impossible (unless you use the crosshairs) to hit the waterline?

I believe you are right, the elevation of the deck gun doesn't go lower than 500 m on any gun I have manned and tried in SH3. But it can hit the hull, bridge etc., so if it's a tanker or just one of those oversized row boats, you can still sink it.

I haven't tested the "Deck gun in all weather" mod, how does it behave in 15 m/s wind speed? Do your gunners hit a lot less than they would at 6 m/s?

I have seen several threads here where people are annoyed that they can't man the gun in rough seas. I don't believe the problem is manning the gun but firing it and actually hitting something. At sea the water is rougher than in shallow waters (as has been observed by others in another thread here last week) and your sub and gun would bob up and down like mad (it has no deep keel to stabilise it and is a light little thing, about the tonnage of a trawler or so). You can of course tie a few unlucky sailors to the gun in any weather in reality, but it is not very useful for the purpose of using that piece of fine gyrostabilised firepower to hit something. And the gyrostabilisers of Das Vaterland was obviously not very good in more than 6 m/s wind. Just my 2 Pfennigs.

Crym

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by frogdog

Grabbed "bad weather guns mod". No read me/install instructions. How do you load mod? Thanks.

Unpack the archive with subdirectories and copy the unpacked data dir to the main SH3 folder.

[ttraveler]

Which one of the single missions would be a good test run for this mod? I can't go back to my carreer save because of the way SH3 is designed. (Wish I could replay just that part.)

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by ttraveler

Which one of the single missions would be a good test run for this mod?

Only "Bismarck" has a wind speed of >7, but it´s a bad idea to surface there... You can edit the mission files with a normal text editor. Open data\singlemissions\english\happy times\happy times.mis and change "WindSpeed". Or use the Mission Editor.

[Godalmighty83]

at 200m a weapons officer fired from a torpedo tube usually suffices when the weather is a bit to bad for bernard to go out and play.

'are you insane?!?! iam not going out there to shoot the enemy! have you seen it out there? thats a nasty breeze and i could catch my death of cold'