Firing Secondary Gun on Tank Base

[hunter301]

How do you fire the secondary gun (if so equipped) from the tank base.
When I set up all secondary guns to fire from the same button so I can saturate my target with secondary fire while reloading the main gun I notice the tank base gun never fires.

[Graephen]

Go to controls and look at main gun, secondary gun selections.
I have mine set to ALT+1 or ALT+2 and reset with ";". Works quite decently.

[shadain597]

If you are talking about machine guns, many are only visual decorations and do not fire in-game. The vehicle's stat card tells you how many functional MGs it has, and if you switch to the "x-ray" view it will show some MGs as having barrels and everything, while some MGs get no x-ray modeling; those ones do not function.

[Shillelagh]

Originally posted by shadain597:

If you are talking about machine guns, many are only visual decorations and do not fire in-game. The vehicle's stat card tells you how many functional MGs it has, and if you switch to the "x-ray" view it will show some MGs as having barrels and everything, while some MGs get no x-ray modeling; those ones do not function.

Unless of course you play the US where the fully modeled bow guns with their own crew members don't fire.

[hunter301]

Just tested out the T29 I have in the American tree.
I have 4 machine guns.
1 on top of the turret for independent shooting.
2 in the turret next to the main gun
1 in right front bow of the tank listed as machine gun and shows machine gunner in X-Ray.
Can't get that one in the bow to shoot.
If I can't use it then why have it there as a functional part of my tank that can be damaged or destroyed and hinder my performance!!