Hello,
i do not want to be the Mr. Wiseguy, and i appreciate the people who made this total conversion possible. It is not necessary, maybe not even possible, to change the night sight in SH3, i only post this to show real life visible distances as i experienced in real life, and also read in some books.
This is from the Buchheim book "The Uboat crews", real life vision is certainly always better than we "see" on video cards. I tried to remain close to the text, which may appear a bit rough that way, as well i'm no native english-speaker, so please bear with me:
"The visual range of the U-boats was low. Although one could see for 10 to 20 seamiles [appx. 1.8 kilometer per german seamile] during good weather and ideal visability, but when was there ever an "ideal" visability in the North Atlantic? If at all during summer - and even then not in typical fog zones like near Labrador, and in the Denmark strait.
It even happened that U-boats which encountered dense fog near Newfoundland or Labrador, had to use the Typhon not to collide with fishing boats.
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It is hard to say how far the radar horizon of aircraft was. The wave impulse's intensity was hardly sufficient to reflect the small U-boat silhouettes at a range of 90 miles, as often suspected. Most probably the observers received a signal up to a distance of 25 to 30 miles from each side. But they were certainly able to control large regions quickly.
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I realized that there is so much information in the books, i can hardly translate all this. Anyway if i find something directly mentioning visibility i will post this.
Remains another thing: When you are in the lookout of a destroyer, your visibility regarding the horizon is not necessarily better than if you were in a lower position. Certainly the horizon around you is more distant than the one you see from a small boat, and you will see silhouettes around that "ring of visibility" in a greater distance, but you will fail to see ships that are closer, because you do not see the silhouette, but look at it from above. The "tower" of a U-boat is only a raised platform, a small grey/black tin drum, which will be very hard to detect in anything than calm seas.
Thanks and greetings,
Catfish
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