Question About manning guns

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

One more question.
If your with a crewman for a long time, say someone low ranked like a matrosengrefeighter, they can eventually become an officer if you keep promoting them in commander? (yeah its a dumb question but thats how i role ^_^)

(Using the US method of denotaing rank here to try and keep things as simple as possible within the scope of the question)

For an E-1 seaman to become an O-1 officer it can't be done entirely through commander, it will require a few promotions ingame at specific spots.

To go from a seaman to a PO (E-3 to a E-4) you'll need to promote the E-3 sailor using an ingame promotion that you get at the end of your patrol. Using SHC it will give you an error that you can't promote the crewman to that rank. Once your sailor is now a PO, you can use SHC again if you choose for the promotions until he becomes a CPO (E-6).

Now to promote the CPO to an officer you must first promote him to a Fanrich Z. s (Easiest way to describe their position is an officer candidate; much like an OCS officer that hasn't completed his training yet and given his commission). To promote from a CPO to a Fanrich requires an ingame promotion as well. Until you get promoted to Leutnant you aren't a full officer per se, once you get the promotion you are considered an O-1 and treated (and expected to perform like) an officer.

Problem is that the game doesn't allow for officer candidates (Fanrich) to be part of the normal crew and they count against your maximum officer limit for the ship - when in reality these crewmen while experienced and adept are not ready to completely fill the position of officer and shouldn't really be counted as one. Also, no matter how bad you might want to promote someone or make them an officer, they still have to gain the necessary experience in order to make the cut for the ingame promotions (no way around that one, your men gotta earn their way) in order to become an officer which I believe requires 400 xp in order to become a Fanrich Z. s.

[Gargamel]

To be honest Colin, I gotta drop a RTFM here.

A lot of the questions you have been asking are covered in the GWX manual that is included with the install. I reread it last week just for S&G's.

It's an excellent read, and you are missing out on a lot by not reading it cover to cover (The middle 300 pages or so are skimmable, as they are mainly tech details.)

Incase you don't understand RTFM?

[Collin Dougherty]

*Facepalm*
I tried it already!!!
It takes like an F'n hour to load!and when it does load its just a bunch of random letters & numbers.
The file i Opend is called Manual_V3.0._final.

[frau kaleun]

The manual is a .pdf file, do you have a .pdf reader installed on your computer? If not, I don't think you will be able to open it in anything that will give you a readable document.

You can get Adobe Reader for free, also one called Foxit that I have used.

Just google the names above or "free pdf reader," there are many more out there.

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Tessa

To go from a seaman to a PO (E-3 to a E-4) you'll need to promote the E-3 sailor using an ingame promotion that you get at the end of your patrol.

Tessa, clarify for me, as I have never made this work (but have only tried twice, and not recently). To promote from seaman to PO, and from PO to Officer, these conditions must be met:

• Space must be available in the next higher class (which means you would have to sail with the vacancy from the beginning of the patrol).
• The candidate must have the XP to make rate.
• The patrol must have been successful enough for the AI to award you promotions.

Do I have that right?

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

The file i Opend is called Manual_V3.0._final.

My manual is in PDF, but I can't remember if it downloads as a compressed file.That would explain the gibberish, if you aren't decompressing it first & trying to unload it with some other program.

Would also explain the long load time... mine pops up in 2-3 seconds.

Can anyone help?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

My manual is in PDF, but I can't remember if it downloads as a compressed file.That would explain the gibberish, if you aren't decompressing it first & trying to unload it with some other program.

Would also explain the long load time... mine pops up in 2-3 seconds.

Can anyone help?

If he installed GWX3, the manual should've been included - it comes as part of the installation program. It's compressed in with the rest of the .bin files but once you complete the installation there should be a working copy as long as you've got a PDF reader to open it with.

[U777]

Think of your shells as 20 free torpedoes. If you are blessed with good weather and unarmed lone targets, you can easily bring down 80K-100K just with shells.

That's why I make heavy use of the deck gun if weather and combat conditions permit it. (Career is in early 1940). Its also useful for trawlers and other vessels that are not worth a torpedo.

If things go my way torpedoes are used when all shells are expended.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

*Facepalm*
I tried it already!!!
It takes like an F'n hour to load!and when it does load its just a bunch of random letters & numbers.
The file i Opend is called Manual_V3.0._final.

It sounds like you may have opened the manual in Notepad.