Armed Merchant ships

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Skunkito

Ah no, I'm aware of that - I meant specifically if I take manual control and aim for the gun crew on the merchants deck will it not kill them pretty sharpish?

I mean I'm quite a good shot, I would ahve thought putting a HE round within 10 feet of a gun crew would be the end of them.

If the weaponry itself is destroyed, I assume it's destroyed and they can't return fire, no matter who was aiming your gun when the shot was fired. I don't think the game would give you the option of ordering your men to target another vessel's weapons if actually hitting them didn't make any difference.

But I do suspect you would have to destroy the weapons themselves, or do enough damage for the AI to consider them no longer operable, regardless of how many enemy crew would (in theory) be taken out by any near misses on the weapons themselves.

Also, be aware that an armed enemy, if its weapons are operable, will continue to fire on you even if it's sinking. I think there are some screenshots floating around of enemy ships still firing shells at a uboat even as the decks slip below the surface.