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10-03-11, 03:57 AM
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Ocean Warrior
 Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: High Peak, Derbyshire
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Wait till Merchants are armed, then come back and tell us how it went using your deckgun
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10-03-11, 12:42 PM
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The Old Man
 Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Denver, CO
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 I've since unbolted mine from my sub and placed it in the flotilla commander's front yard with flowers sticking out of the barrel. Waste of time and space later in the war. I seem to remember reading in the second volume of Clay Blair's book "Hitler's U-Boat War" that the IX's kept their guns throughout the war but the VII's weren't produced with them late in the war.
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10-03-11, 01:50 PM
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Lieutenant
 Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Germany - Berlin
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10-03-11, 06:06 PM
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Prince of
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Watching over U-253
Posts: 3,527
Downloads: 98
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10-03-11, 06:54 PM
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Seasoned Skipper
 Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Westun New Yahk
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I am among those who consider the deck gun to be my primary weapon. This is a WWII sim and not a WWI sim, though. I suppose I've just had plenty of practice with the darned thing.
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Largest target sunk with deck gun: Japanese auxiliary cruiser, 15000 tons
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10-04-11, 02:03 AM
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Swabbie
 Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: SF
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I feel as though the game allows you to be far more accurate with the deck gun than seas would have permitted. Land-based guns didn't have to worry about the pitch and roll of the boat, so extremely long ranges would be far more feasible.
You can, with practice, lob rounds well over 2 or 3 km, which would have been (I imagine) extremely hard to do on even very calm seas with any accuracy.
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Tauchen, Volle Fahrt voraus! Type VIIB U-83, Flotilla Saltzwedel, Wilhelmshaven. Sept. 6, 1939. Angelo Schilling. |
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10-04-11, 04:34 AM
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Prince of
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Watching over U-253
Posts: 3,527
Downloads: 98
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In my case though I generally end up manning the gun myself as even when I have 'trained' personnel at the station half the shots end up hitting the ocean. 
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