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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

In real life? Only at sea, or on land as well? From the signal bridge of a battleship to the mast of another battleship? Please clarify.

I mean the game horizon goes no farther than 10 nm. (Unless someone has modded something better?) I certainly didn't mean to say that in RL, nothing can be seen beyond 10 nm.




This made me think of a passage in the book, Sunk!, by Capt. Hashimoto. In it, he mentions looking through the periscope and seeing a blur, which he took to be a cloud at first, then realized was Guam, from a distance of 26 mi. [The highest point on Guam is 1,332 ft. according to Wekipedia]. So, it is certainly possible to see large land masses at a much farther range than we can, in game.

This 10 nm. horizon was a pet peeve of mine, since I had formerly been trying to use "Celestial Navigation", and found, I could never see any mountains beyond 9.9 nm., or so.