A few questions from a new commander

[treblesum81]

1. Deck gun is perfect for the small fry, and even some mid size ones in calm weather where you can get good waterline shots. Unless the target is 7,000 or more I usually don't go after it. Murphy's law happens too often that you'll expend all your eels and run across a large troop transport or other 20,000+ target and have nothing to fire at it.

Does this mean I'm reading a little too much into the BdU communicaes that specifically state not to use your deck gun against anything basically? I've ready plenty of messages on this board talking about using the deck gun, but from what I can tell in game... at least with GWX 2.1 and GWX mission orders installed... is that you shouldn't do that. Are these really just fluff and I should just ignore most of them? I do know that some are just not applicable in game like the fish running too deep, but others like the warning about magnetic trigger pre-detonation seem to hold true, so i'm not sure what applies and what is filler.

Greg