All I know is they had night oculars "Zeiss" very efficient (Jochen Brennecke "The hunters and the hunted").
In the game, it's easy: I open fire on anything that does not have their navigation lights on.
Mistake is a part of the war.

:salute:


http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/5379410.jpg

They never were "officially" dropped, but in the British coastal areas and US coastal waters, in February 1940, attacks on unidentifiable ships (blacked out) were authorized, has long as they were done while submerged, to give the impression that the ship would have hit a mine. In the rest of the world, the official BdU standing orders, were to follow the Prize Regulations, but like I said, it is very difficult for a U-boat to fully adhere to these regulations. Unofficially, Germany was conducting an unrestricted submarine warfare.

There's no good way to do it, short of using the external camera view, which I have disabled.

About your only option is to sail right up next to the target and run up the scope and try to make it out.

Or, just assume if it's dark it's OK to shoot. :)

Steve

+2

I do this a fair bit.

This.
No lights? They must be up to no good.

And since only GWX puts those into the game, and since a lot of them are still not lit, you must sink a lot of neutrals.

Strangely: never.
Probably because I use the contact color mod lol.
:D

I really would like to have the 1940 version of this on the boot:

http://www.amazon.com/000-Candlepowe.../dp/B001ECH9SE

:yeah:

would be convenient to spot the flags but it would drain your batteries as well!

Can't decide whether to attack or not?
 

Your Watch Officer on the bridge will validate a Target for you when asked.

Reverie

Early in the war, or in open water, I try to time my attacks at dawn or dusk in order to make a proper identification. Trying to detect a flag color in the pitch dark of night is nearly impossible.

After the US joins the war, I usually figure that anything without running lights going to or coming from the UK must be hostile. A risk, yes, but what's war without a little risk. (P.S. don't tell BdU)

I don't know what The Reich's take is on it .... and I don't know what other Captains do ... I can only tell you what I do ...

I am the Captain of my vessel ... when I park off the Englander's coast ... and they are heading for it ... as far as I am concerned ... they are one of three types ... an enemy, a neutral, or an ally.

If an enemy, then my decision is made. LOS!
If a neutral, then they should know better than to enter a war zone. LOS!
If an ally, then there is only two reasons to be steaming to England ... they are traitors ... LOS!
or .... they are stupid and shouldn't be allowed to represent the Kriegsmarine. LOS! :yeah:

Seriously though, make your best guess ... I can't see them either.

Last night heading through the channel I accidentally sank a Romanian merchant,I was convinced it was a bloody French swine.
Be VERY careful if you find yourself in the same situation,yellow is difficult to make out and could be mistaken for white at night.
:nope:

There's a mod out there that makes the flags "brighter" at night.

Try this:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=152479

:)

When message box that pops up when enemy ship is spotted is allowed then it is easy - when it comes up then vessel is enemy, if not then it is neutral.