Need more firepower

[HotiBomba]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Edit: on second reading I think you may be asking if it's possible to have both the deck gun and the flak gun manned simultaneously... my gut feeling is no, but I could very well be wrong as I don't remember trying it. I'm still thinking that even if you could a crewman will not fire the AA gun at a ship, only something airborne, and if so you'd have to man it yourself anyway even if you had crew at the deck gun firing that on their own.

Yes, i know that deck and gun can fire automatically (if manned before, and given order to fire at will), but flak will only look to fire at aircrafts, not on ships. I was looking for solution that all guns aboard fire at enemy ship (like they fire at you ), bastards, they use every gun against you, even the AA, on the other side you can only use Deck (manned automaticaly by crew), and u can pick one flak gun and handle it manualy, others (if u have more like me on IXD2), will do nothing.

I think that you would have more chance against armored merchant shipping, or light armored warships if u can use all guns (in my case it would be 1 Deck gun, and 8x20mm flaks - 1 Flakvierling, 2 Flakzwilling)

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by HotiBomba

I think that you would have more chance against armored merchant shipping, or light armored warships if u can use all guns (in my case it would be 1 Deck gun, and 8x20mm flak - 1 Flakvierling, 2 Flakzwilling)

Ah, well I have never changed out of my VIIB so I only have the two guns to worry about. Never thought about how it works with that much armament on deck. But it does seem a shame if you can't have them all firing at once if the target merits it.

[HotiBomba]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Ah, well I have never changed out of my VIIB so I only have the two guns to worry about. Never thought about how it works with that much armament on deck. But it does seem a shame if you can't have them all firing at once if the target merits it.

Yes it specially shame when u see how enemy fire all his AA gun at you, and u can use only one (in that case - it would be Flakvierling ) - very powerfull 'little thing'

[Frontier359]

Originally Posted by HotiBomba

Yes it specially shame when u see how enemy fire all his AA gun at you, and u can use only one (in that case - it would be Flakvierling ) - very powerfull 'little thing'

Why would you shell a target that can shoot back? Dive asap, before you lose that ability entirely.

AI Guns don't follow the same rules as your Sub Guns do.
An AI Gun classed in the sim file as AA will fire on damned near anything!
But an AA Gun on your Sub only fires on AirCraft unless manned by you.
That's just the way SH3 rolls I guess.

[HotiBomba]

Originally Posted by privateer

AI Guns don't follow the same rules as your Sub Guns do.
An AI Gun classed in the sim file as AA will fire on damned near anything!
But an AA Gun on your Sub only fires on AirCraft unless manned by you.
That's just the way SH3 rolls I guess.

Grrrrr i experienced that... shame that we cannot use same rules

[maillemaker]

Why would you shell a target that can shoot back?

Tonnage.

Steve

[HotiBomba]

Originally Posted by Frontier359

Why would you shell a target that can shoot back? Dive asap, before you lose that ability entirely.

Night attacks! When u have element of surprise on your side. Closing at the rear of lone merchant, i usually man the deck gun - give order to crew to aim at their weapons, sit on flakvierling and fire at target at 1000-1500 m. With 5-10 seconds advantage, you can destroy it stern deck gun and AA guns (if she have it) by that time she cannot fire her aft deck gun cos u are positioned at her rear. I don't use this tactis often, but sometimes on smaller merchant's which don't have too much guns aboard, or use this against crippled ships and save one eel for the others. This would be probably suicide mission against two or more ships close to each other or attack against Troop Ships, Large Merchants and similar ones which had many guns aboard after 1943.

I asked this cos when i attack like this it would be very useful that i can open fire from other two flaks. I read somewhere that is possible, maybe not in SH3, maybe SH4 or SH5 - not sure... That's why i asked here