Manning the deck gun

[orangehat44]

I havent been able to get my crew to man it by ordering. But if you go to the back of the conning tower you can walk down the ladder to the deck, walk up to the gun click it. and after you are on the gun, crew will magically teleport to it ( i dunno but whatever). I dont if they are self sufficient, because Ive only manned it myself and shot the target myself. I havent manned it till they pop there then get off and tell them to shoot to see if they will. Ive only stumbled across one ship and had the time to pop it with a torp and finish it with deck gun. But im sure there will be a time when i want to be able to do other things and need the crew to man the gun by them selfs. So if anyone can figure out how to get the crew to be alittle more self sufficient im all ears lol.

[Conrad von Kaiser]

Did you look through the binoculars and designate that target for the deck gun to engage? (Space bar when looking at it)

Sometimes that jump-starts them into firing, other times you'll have to go and manually jump on the gun to get the crew to appear on it.

Designating a target does work from time to time though. Accidentally designated a target on my way out of Kiel... German Merchant. They happily fired away even though we weren't in battle station's or anything lol

Took me 5 frantic minutes of searching for a cease fire command before I had to go to Periscope depth to get them to stop

[Viper114]

What I've usually done is I tell the spotter to man the deck gun, then I jump in the gunner seat. About 5 seconds later the other two show up for the gun to start moving.

Watch Officer has the dialogue to man /Secure the Deck Gun / Flak. However you need to ensure he has morale to do this...

Simply enough if you have a cook making special meals

Originally Posted by funkster319

Watch Officer has the dialogue to man /Secure the Deck Gun / Flak. However you need to ensure he has morale to do this...

Simply enough if you have a cook making special meals

More of a problem if you've just loaded a saved game and the entire crew has no morale.

[Mooncatt]

here is what i do...
order my WO to man the deck gun, in upper right corner of the screen a little icon will appear. sometimes when the crew simply cant be assed to man said deck gun i click on this little icon and after a few seconds they appear......as if by magic

use binoculas to lock target and crew start firing away......or should do anyways

Originally Posted by Fivepast

More of a problem if you've just loaded a saved game and the entire crew has no morale.

Get the Special Meal Ability for the Cook ASAP - that way you just make them a meal (or rather he does) and instant morale

[SteamWake]

"I'm not gonna fire that gun untill you give me something to eat !"

Frickin ridiculous.

Originally Posted by funkster319

Get the Special Meal Ability for the Cook ASAP - that way you just make them a meal (or rather he does) and instant morale

I was under the impression that the cook's special ability doesn't work if he has no morale himself.