The how-to deck gun guide

jakjack · 04-05-15, 09:27 AM

Yeah I have to play with all weather guns or I can't ever use them. I also outright cheat and edit my ammunition up to 800 shells.

Tupolev · 04-05-15, 08:27 PM

Reading the KTBs (uboatarchive.net) of Hardegen's patrols to the US East Coast provide excellent examples of real world use of the DG.

While his overall actions for each patrol are impressive, the artillery actions are particularly ballsy.

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Sailor Steve · 04-05-15, 08:38 PM

Excellent find, excellent study and excellent post!

I actually kind of stuck to that "get close" philosophy all along, having played SH1 starting in 1998 and reading a lot about how the Americans did it, and also because I hate wasting ammo. Still much to learn.

bstanko6 · 04-05-15, 08:41 PM

I'm a DG hog. I will take on a destroyer with my IX 10 mil any day. If you know how to use it, you can do some serious damage to any one. It also helps that this is a game. In RL I may never actually use it much.

Sailor Steve · 04-05-15, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bstanko6

It also helps that this is a game.

Quote:

In RL I may never actually use it much.

In real life the destroyer would have four or five guns each equal to yours plus an actual fire control center with a director and everything.

04-05-15, 09:27 AM	#1
jakjack Seaman Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New York Posts: 39 Downloads: 297 Uploads: 0	Yeah I have to play with all weather guns or I can't ever use them. I also outright cheat and edit my ammunition up to 800 shells. __________________ In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines

04-05-15, 08:38 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Excellent find, excellent study and excellent post! I actually kind of stuck to that "get close" philosophy all along, having played SH1 starting in 1998 and reading a lot about how the Americans did it, and also because I hate wasting ammo. Still much to learn. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-05-15, 08:41 PM	#4
bstanko6 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Murwik Naval Academy Posts: 2,130 Downloads: 390 Uploads: 13	I'm a DG hog. I will take on a destroyer with my IX 10 mil any day. If you know how to use it, you can do some serious damage to any one. It also helps that this is a game. In RL I may never actually use it much. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] BSTANKO6'S SH5 NAVAL ACADEMY http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbe...W2NArCA/videos DISCORD https://discord.gg/6tFeTSUmVc

04-05-15, 08:27 PM	#2
Tupolev Hauptman Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: FL410 Posts: 174 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Reading the KTBs (uboatarchive.net) of Hardegen's patrols to the US East Coast provide excellent examples of real world use of the DG. While his overall actions for each patrol are impressive, the artillery actions are particularly ballsy. T