88mm deck gun mod for the Type II

[Bladekill1298]

I've been working on a mod that implements the 8.8cm cannon for the type II but to no avail

Yes this is unrealistic, here's what I tried so far:

In the basic.cfg for [AO1] I swapped out the 20mm entry for the 88mm one (This swapped the model but registered the gun as destroyed ie unusuable)

I've swapped the labels for the guns around in GUN_SUB.dat (This gave me the same result as above)

I've tried to reclassify the 88mm in GUN_SUB.sim as type: AAgun (exchanged from "cannon")

I've tried to delete two crew nodes in the 88mm dat file (I did this thinking the gun would only need one crew member)

I've looked at older posts on subsim and none of them have a real solution

Any pointers to where/what I should manipulate, modify? With sophisticated mods such as Warship Mod there surely has to be a way to implement this.

Thanks.