Searchlight Q

[bill44]

At what distance at night should ships put on their shearch lights ? I just had a battle in which my 3 PC's, (Boyarin, Askold, and Novik) did not put on their lights, during the battle, even when Boyarin was 168 meters from the C maru, it still did not use it's searchlight.

[Enforcer]

At what distance at night should ships put on their shearch lights ? I just had a battle in which my 3 PC's, (Boyarin, Askold, and Novik) did not put on their lights, during the battle, even when Boyarin was 168 meters from the C maru, it still did not use it's searchlight.

Except for campaign battles like Port Arthur, I've never ever seen a ship putting on its searchlight :mad:

[Batou]

Hopfully we will see starshells in Jutland

[Bullethead]

I haven't had a chance to play DG for a while, but my experience is that SLs come on immediately at the start of a night action, when the range is usually 3-4km. The SLs then remain on until shot out, which happens fairly often. And it seems to take a long time to repair damaged SLs in port. So you can have ships with all their hull and weapons damage repaired, but still not have working SLs. So in a later battle, that ship wouldn't turn on SLs.