Question about the deck Gun power

[banjo]

It is RFB that has the slow reload times--TMO if relatively fast, and the 40mm shoots as it should. If/when you get the crewman with deck gun/AA gun special abilties he helps speed up reload times a bunch.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by gutted

GWX does it better. instead of gimping the rate of fire and to a lesser extents its power they instead gimped its accuracy while rocking around.

The GW are welcome to do what they can. The best modders in the game have tried for over a year on SH4 and the situation seems to be intractable. The best achieved so far, and I like it, is a test version of New Real Deck Gun, which when I went back to the original author of Real Deck Gun was thoroughly panned for reasons I didn't understand. But both Real Deck Gun and New Real Deck Gun were abandoned in disgust by their authors after what they regarded as complete failure.

If the GW want in, the water's warm! They ought to jump right in and fix it. I'm pretty disgusted with a gyro stabilized deck gun. I only use it if I'm out of torpedoes and have a wounded but not sinking unarmed merchie on the surface.

[Wilcke]

Somewhere in my long list of mods I have a destabilized deck gun. It hosed a bunch of other things and was unusable for SH4. If you think this situation was tough, the destabilized deck gun made you want to puke. Yes you are correct it was not very often that the captain would decide to surface and use the deck gun.

See RFB is working correctly.

[LukeFF]

Geez people, there's how many threads about this issue already on this very forum?

Originally Posted by gutted

IMO the reload time of the deck gun in TMO is way too long. i find it hard to believe that a trained crew would take that long. granted they're on a small rocking boat.. but how long does it take to open a breach (that auto-ejects the spent shell), and stick a new one in and close it?

Only the 5"/25 had a auto-ejecting breech. The 3"/50 was a gun originally designed for AA use, and the 4"/50 was originally a surface ship-mounted weapon. Both were not well-suited for the deck gun role on submarines:

http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/guns.html