Merchant Fire-Suppression

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by ShotMagnet

Can a merchant's deck-gun be suppresed by a sub's flak gun(s)?
Shot

based on experience, no, you cannot disable a ship's weapons directly.
a ship's gun (cannon or mg) will continue to fire at you as long as its platform is viable.

here are some things i have witnessed by playing:

• a merchie fired continuously at me until a secondary explosion split her into two pieces.
• a DD fired continuously at me until a torpedo hit it in the stern and the stern gun platform (and of course the guns mounted on it) was destroyed. then the weapon stopped firing. the DD sank a minute or two later.
• i manually fired many shells from my deck gun directly at a ship's gun emplacement with hits and the weapon continued to return fire until i gave up and submerged.

does that answer your question?
good luck. and good hunting.