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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg
I found something every strange on my 8th patrol. I found a convoy off the east coast of Scotland, but it wasn't your normal eveyday convoy. It was a mixed convoy consisting of three destoryers as escorts, about four british ships, a large amount of norwegian ships at least ten or so one swedish ship and two finnish ships. But the ships from norway, finland, and sweden didn't have their lights on even though all of these countrys are curently neutral as its early 1940.
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as a general rule of thumb... if you are a neutral ship traveling within a non-neutral convoy... navigational lights are a no-no because they easily give away the position of the rest of the convoy.
smoking on your watch shift was also out of the question... (i dont remember the number) BUT i read somewhere that on a clear, calm night, in perfect dark with no moon the human eye can see a match strike or a cigarette lighter light up at some insane distance (it was like 50 miles)
also, this rule of engangement is not simulated within SH3... but im fairly certain that ships traveling under british escort were fair game for attack even if they were of neutral registry... so, you would not have lit ships within a mixed convoy.