Unbelievable merchant gun accuracy!

BasilY · 07-21-08, 07:00 PM

My experience in GWX saids that the merchants, almost all of them armed after 42, are dangerous foes. They can even hit me at 8000+ feets away with day light. And they can be very accurate at times.

But don't get me wrong I still use my deck gun to kill, But only when attacking single ships or two ship convoys (or convoy stragglers), and at 3500-4500 distance, I will fire while maintaining distance, (running backwards when necessary), I will try to pour 15-20 shots at the victim, observe at least 5 good water line hits and got parascope depth, It will take about 30 minutes for a doom ship to sunk, after 30 minutes, the ship's probably not sinking, I will have to consider a second attack.

One more thing, no attack with wind above 4 knots. The merchants are just as accurate while you can't hit anything more than a 1000 fts.

07-21-08, 07:00 PM	#9
BasilY Weps Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 359 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	My experience in GWX saids that the merchants, almost all of them armed after 42, are dangerous foes. They can even hit me at 8000+ feets away with day light. And they can be very accurate at times. But don't get me wrong I still use my deck gun to kill, But only when attacking single ships or two ship convoys (or convoy stragglers), and at 3500-4500 distance, I will fire while maintaining distance, (running backwards when necessary), I will try to pour 15-20 shots at the victim, observe at least 5 good water line hits and got parascope depth, It will take about 30 minutes for a doom ship to sunk, after 30 minutes, the ship's probably not sinking, I will have to consider a second attack. One more thing, no attack with wind above 4 knots. The merchants are just as accurate while you can't hit anything more than a 1000 fts.