[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Moonlight absolutely makes a difference in how they see you at night, so does light fog(you can get away with a lot actually if light fog is out at night)

The flares aka star shells do help them.I nearly crapped myself south of Truk one time, pulled off a great surface attack in 43 on a big convoy, was making a slow turn away after firing fish so could head away from convoy when torpedos hit, well the wakes were spotted befor ethey hit, they still hit and sank 3 ships, but an escort fired a star shell right over me, sudenly huge splashes all around, i went to flank speed and zigging, some close shells, as i got out from under the star shell, his fire was not so accurate.

Yep, but doe's the difference in moon size matter...you know, is bigger worse, not better.