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Originally Posted by Sniper297

Depending on visibility and size of the target, it can be as much as 10 miles or more. Or as low as 300 yards if the weather is really cruddy at night. One thing helps, when starting a career I go thru the seamen available (doesn't cost any renown to recruit a seaman 3rd) to take the pick of the litter - if someone has 35-40 watchman I grab him and stick him in one of the damage control slots. Then I go thru the deck watch and send all the lubbers with watchman skill less than 30 back to bootcamp, unless they have a high skill in something else I need. Often it's a random assignment, I find a guy on the bridge watch with 20 watchman skill but 50 mechanical and 50 guns, reassign him to one of the empty torpedo room slots instead of making him walk the plank.

Start with a good bridge watch, nobody under 35 watchman skill when starting a career, and there will be fewer surprise parties.

Maybe I have play under the wrong impression. I always thought that, those in damage control, where in manned slot on the sub or ship and had “slots” that they when to when the damage control alarm was given? This was not a slot you filled in port, right? If so I have been seriously under man for a lot of years


Oh…to the post, yes sometimes those guys have some “great” eyes that or like “over-the-horizon” radar! But then I found out that if I looked close at where the sightings is I can make out the tops of the mast, funnel or smoke. Now when I was on ship as a USMC, I was told that we could see about 20 miles out on the water…eyes. Was in the Med ( near the bridge) in 1964, near Greece (Crete) and here comes the Russian fleet of the Black Sea, well this Lovely Cruiser pass us Like we not moving (Know that we’ll doing 12 knots). I told this thing was about 1500 yards to the starboard and was told by the Captain he was around three mile. Get the picture, old guy and war stores