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Originally Posted by Axeman3d
That's what I thought. Spain were technically neutral throughout the war, even though Franco had ties with Hitler going way back. Why no lights?
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I too have sunk Spanish ships in game. I was patrolling near the upper coasts of Africa when I recieved sighting reports of two merchant ships. It was a dark rainy night (all stories are good with that added
) and I was shocked at how large both ships where. I could see them in the dip of the horizon without my binos. I was practically frothing at the mouth, since there where no escorts. I raced ahead at full, and closed the distance to about 2K meters, and still couldn't verify their flags, but I knew there were both large tankers and still no escorts in sight!
I grew tired of trying to see their flags, and nothing was lit up. That was the only bit of info I felt I needed. So I fired all forward tubes. Two eels headed straight to each tanker...and happily all four ran true and exploded nicely...
And then their search lights went on, and those ships lit up like Christmas trees! Those jerks even had the audacity to finally swivel their spot lights to light up their flags....I couldn't believe it...they ran dark until it was too late, AND THEN shone lights on their flags....One ship sank, the other was lucky and limped off severely damaged... just like my Kaleun's career.
I found it highly odd that two large unescorted spanish tankers near africa would be running dark... until AFTER I attacked them.
Perhaps all these neutrals running around without lights on are really just ships packed with their respective countrys' dregs of society...lol