Fun with Deck Guns

comet61 · 12-17-09, 07:08 PM

I've taken out Corvettes with flak guns several times. Then a round or two of the deck gun....squared away.

Gabucino · 12-18-09, 01:48 AM

Sometimes I do 0 degrees AOB frontal assaults against a destroyer (actually rückmarsch to delay getting too close), manually hitting its command deck with the deck gun. It's pretty tense, especially if it doesn't sink.

Ping Panther · 12-18-09, 02:42 PM

One of my most memorable gun duels was in the GWX single mission against the 2 fast troop ships. My torpedo approach (and you get only one try with these guys!, they are bee-lining it at 27 knots +), was filled with duds and misses, so I surfaced up to let them have it with my gun. By then it had become twilight, and they presented a nicely sized target.

Tracers whizzing all over the sea!

I find it helpful to do a range sighting for a moment on the UZO scope before ranging your gun for the first shots. And, I almost always man the deck gun myself.

Jimbuna · 12-18-09, 03:58 PM

I tend to surface in front of the heavier naval units and throw rotten tomatos and empty beer bottles at them.

I've never sunk anything with this tactic yet , but it beats lugging the empties back to port

12-17-09, 07:08 PM	#1
comet61 Sparky Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 151 Downloads: 240 Uploads: 0	Flak guns I've taken out Corvettes with flak guns several times. Then a round or two of the deck gun....squared away.

12-18-09, 01:48 AM	#2
Gabucino Gunner Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 99 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	Sometimes I do 0 degrees AOB frontal assaults against a destroyer (actually rückmarsch to delay getting too close), manually hitting its command deck with the deck gun. It's pretty tense, especially if it doesn't sink. __________________ -- U-47 Personnel file

12-18-09, 03:58 PM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I tend to surface in front of the heavier naval units and throw rotten tomatos and empty beer bottles at them. I've never sunk anything with this tactic yet , but it beats lugging the empties back to port __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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12-18-09, 02:42 PM	#3
Ping Panther Lieutenant Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: the armpit of the Mid-Atlantic / Quadrant CA42 Posts: 262 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	One of my most memorable gun duels was in the GWX single mission against the 2 fast troop ships. My torpedo approach (and you get only one try with these guys!, they are bee-lining it at 27 knots +), was filled with duds and misses, so I surfaced up to let them have it with my gun. By then it had become twilight, and they presented a nicely sized target. Tracers whizzing all over the sea! I find it helpful to do a range sighting for a moment on the UZO scope before ranging your gun for the first shots. And, I almost always man the deck gun myself.