[WIP] specific searchlight removal mod

The search/spot is hard coded into the dat for the K-Ship.


I wanted it to have a narrow beam/activation that standard
search lites could not handle.

The fact that no one has ever reported them seen?
Tells me it works as designed!
(It must fly over you at less then 250 feet or so?)

But it is a clue to further modify other Search lite settings.
Also in the K-Ship.
The Guy up front with binos?
He will turn and look at enemy Units.
(Another Easter Egg Alert!)

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by schlechter pfennig

Think we can keep that one then!

I'm having a devil of a time finding the folders for the following:
F01B=Steam Trawler 01
F02B=Steam Trawler 02
F03B=Steam Trawler 03
F04B=Steam Trawler 04
LTgBoat=Tugboat
PCTrawler=ASW Trawler
TugBoat=Tugboat

Help?

I've responded to your PM

Originally Posted by privateer

The search/spot is hard coded into the dat for the K-Ship.


I wanted it to have a narrow beam/activation that standard
search lites could not handle.

The fact that no one has ever reported them seen?
Tells me it works as designed!
(It must fly over you at less then 250 feet or so?)

But it is a clue to further modify other Search lite settings.
Also in the K-Ship.
The Guy up front with binos?
He will turn and look at enemy Units.
(Another Easter Egg Alert!)

LMAO

[bigboywooly]

LTgBoat=Tugboat - NLTF
PCTrawler=ASW Trawler - NTRW
TugBoat=Tugboat - NATF

And IIRC didnt BBs carry searchlights and cruisers come to that
Will have to check on that

[schlechter pfennig]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

LTgBoat=Tugboat - NLTF
PCTrawler=ASW Trawler - NTRW
TugBoat=Tugboat - NATF

And IIRC didnt BBs carry searchlights and cruisers come to that
Will have to check on that

Please do! If they historically did I'll just add them back in.

[bigboywooly]

Well have come acroos a pic from 1893 on a BB
lol
And one in WW1
This
http://cgi.ebay.com/Battleship-Searc...-/120079796732
Is a 1940s US postcard

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...p-Thread/page4 shows lights on more than a few so yeah leave the BBs

HMS Hood

Searchlights
As Completed (1920) 8x 36" Searchlights
- x4 on Searchlight Platform between funnels
- x2 on After Searchlight Platform
- x2 on platform on foremast 4x 24" signaling searchlights on Admiral's Bridge


July 1921 Refit
2x 36" searchlights removed from Searchlight Platform between funnels


September-November 1923 Refit
2x 36" searchlights replaced (as above)


October-December 1924 Refit
2x 36" searchlights once again removed (as above)


November 1925 - July 1926 Refit
Searchlights on After Concentrating Position moved abreast each other
2x 24" signaling searchlights removed


June - October 1936 Refit
36" searchlight platform removed from foremast


Feb-August 1939 Refit
4x 40" searchlights added, one on either side of After Concentrating Position and one either side just aft of number two funnel
2x 24" Signaling light added on bridge
Replacement of 36" searchlights and removal of the platform between the funnels.


Final Outfit (As Sunk)
6 x 40" searchlights (2 just aft of second funnel and 4 on the After Concentrating Position)
4x 24" signaling searchlight

http://www.hmshood.com/ship/hoodspecs5.htm

Cruisers too - well US ones deffo

The cruiser group attacked first, with De Ruyter in the lead, followed by Java, Piet Hein, Ford, and Pope in the order named. Arrival off the south coast of Bali took place as scheduled at about 2130 on the 19th. An hour later the action began. The cruisers searchlights illuminated two enemy vessels off the port bow, and firing from the gun batteries began at once

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...avaSea-12.html

USS Indianapolis (CA 35) - Closeup view of her after half, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April 1942, following overhaul. Note her SOC seaplanes, 5"/25 guns and ready service ammunition, after smokestack, searchlights, "horse" collar emergency life float alongside the railing in lower right center and top edge of armor belt. USS Raleigh (CL 7) is in the background.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/035/04035.htm

[h.sie]

i think the question is not wheather battleships historically had searchlights. in my opinion, the question is: if they had lights, did they use the lights when near a uboat / in alarm state?

if in sh3 a ship has searchlights in .eqp file; it will use the lights when in alarm state.

but maybe in the WWII battleships have lights but only for night surface battles and not for hunting uboats???

if so, it would be historically more accurate to remove the lights in sh3 because it's not a surface battle simulator. Otherwise battleships would be lighted up like a christmas tree - an easy target for uboats.

i think that is what Sailor Steve said in a different thread.

[schlechter pfennig]

Originally Posted by h.sie

i think the question is not wheather battleships historically had searchlights. in my opinion, the question is: if they had lights, did they use the lights when near a uboat / in alarm state?

if in sh3 a ship has searchlights in .eqp file; it will use the lights when in alarm state.

but maybe in the WWII battleships have lights but only for night surface battles and not for hunting uboats.

if so, it would be historically more accurate to remove the lights in sh3 because it's not a surface battle simulator and battleships would be lighted up like a christmas tree - an easy target for uboats.

i think that is what Sailor Steve said in a different thread.

::nods:: One of (the many) little quirky-irks about SHIII: all or nothing.

In this case (searchlights) it's not so much a matter of whether they were equipped with them as much as it is when they would have used them.

Unless I get really negative feedback, I think, after consideration, I'm going to stay with the choices as I'd already listed.