Searchlights

andym · 10-13-08, 01:45 PM

Can searchlights be shot out?

meduza · 10-13-08, 02:04 PM

On a ship, yes. On an aircraft, I don't know, I've never tried.

andym · 10-13-08, 02:12 PM

Cool,i have tried but obviously need more practise.Cheers shippers.

meduza · 10-13-08, 02:17 PM

It's easier to hit the searchlight with the flak gun, but don't try it against an armed vessel.

UnderseaLcpl · 10-13-08, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by meduza

It's easier to hit the searchlight with the flak gun, but don't try it against an armed vessel.

Actually, it is possible to de-light and de-gun some merchant vessels. Once you have plotted their course, simply assume a parallel course, within about 100m of their track, and as their bow passes your stern, blow the tanks. Use the aa to take out their searchlights and guns. This works best at night, but it can be pulled off in the daytime. It obviously doesn't work against convoying ships unless you can eclipse yourself with the merchant's hull. I use this method to save torpedoes when encountering single ships that are armed. The goal is to surface beneath their gun depresssion.

And as far as I know, it is not possible to shoot out the searchlights on aircraft. I have a suspicions that planes are a single model and do not contain destructible parts.

bookworm_020 · 10-13-08, 09:05 PM

The searchlights on a ship are quite easy to shoot out, just make sure she isn't armed before you try! IT's also easier to shoot them out in calm weather.

As for shooting the light out on an aircraft, are you nuts????

Don't stay on the surface like a deer in the headlights, DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!

U-46 Commander · 10-13-08, 09:57 PM

Some of us have our honor to protect. I was attacked by a single hurricane and i stayed up on the surface doing 7 knots. He missed! so did I.

UnderseaLcpl · 10-14-08, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by U-46 Commander

Some of us have our honor to protect. I was attacked by a single hurricane and i stayed up on the surface doing 7 knots. He missed! so did I.

Honor? What honor? We hide in the depths and torpedo civilians. Honor is the last thing on my mind.

Erich dem Roten · 10-14-08, 06:32 PM

What's the effective range for those searchlights anyway? I'm currently being stalked by 5 DD's...whenever one leaves another shows up

I'm making plans for a twilight surface escape :hmm:

TarJak · 10-14-08, 06:37 PM

You could always test it to find out.

Erich dem Roten · 10-14-08, 06:50 PM

If I was able to use the mission editor at all I would...still need to figure the darn thing out. Seems whenever I open it I say "Hell, I could just be playing SH3 instead."

10-14-08, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

And as far as I know, it is not possible to shoot out the searchlights on aircraft. I have a suspicions that planes are a single model and do not contain destructible parts.

Nope.
Aircraft are multi objects as are ships.

And the Lights are assigned just as search lites on ships.
But hitting JUST the light?
Heck!!
If you hit it you take out a wing!!

Ping Panther · 10-15-08, 09:11 AM

I would like to know how so many DD's seem to be so good at pointing their searchlights at your u-boat location while submerged. And, how effective would a searchlight have been to see a u-boat underwater in the Atlantic? I could imagine at periscope depths there may be a chance to spot something in RL, but I've been down to 100m+ and it seems like they are still spotting me.

meduza · 10-15-08, 09:37 AM

When you're submerged, they don't spot you with the searchlight, but with hydrophones and asdic.

10-13-08, 01:45 PM	#1
andym Weps Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 365 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	Searchlights Can searchlights be shot out? __________________ GWX 3.0 GOLD,SH3 Commander.

10-13-08, 02:04 PM	#2
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	On a ship, yes. On an aircraft, I don't know, I've never tried. __________________

10-13-08, 02:12 PM	#3
andym Weps Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 365 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	Cool,i have tried but obviously need more practise.Cheers shippers. __________________ GWX 3.0 GOLD,SH3 Commander.

10-13-08, 02:17 PM	#4
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	It's easier to hit the searchlight with the flak gun, but don't try it against an armed vessel. __________________

10-13-08, 09:05 PM	#6
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	The searchlights on a ship are quite easy to shoot out, just make sure she isn't armed before you try! IT's also easier to shoot them out in calm weather. As for shooting the light out on an aircraft, are you nuts???? Don't stay on the surface like a deer in the headlights, DIVE! DIVE! DIVE! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

10-13-08, 09:57 PM	#7
U-46 Commander Lieutenant Join Date: May 2008 Location: The absolutely most exciting state!! Iowa! Posts: 251 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 0	Some of us have our honor to protect. I was attacked by a single hurricane and i stayed up on the surface doing 7 knots. He missed! so did I. __________________ "Loved By Few, Hated By Many, Respected By All."-The U-boats.

10-14-08, 06:32 PM	#9
Erich dem Roten Electrician's Mate Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 134 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	What's the effective range for those searchlights anyway? I'm currently being stalked by 5 DD's...whenever one leaves another shows up I'm making plans for a twilight surface escape :hmm: __________________

10-14-08, 06:37 PM	#10
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	You could always test it to find out.

10-14-08, 06:50 PM	#11
Erich dem Roten Electrician's Mate Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 134 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	If I was able to use the mission editor at all I would...still need to figure the darn thing out. Seems whenever I open it I say "Hell, I could just be playing SH3 instead." __________________

10-15-08, 09:11 AM	#13
Ping Panther Lieutenant Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: the armpit of the Mid-Atlantic / Quadrant CA42 Posts: 262 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I would like to know how so many DD's seem to be so good at pointing their searchlights at your u-boat location while submerged. And, how effective would a searchlight have been to see a u-boat underwater in the Atlantic? I could imagine at periscope depths there may be a chance to spot something in RL, but I've been down to 100m+ and it seems like they are still spotting me.

10-15-08, 09:37 AM	#14
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	When you're submerged, they don't spot you with the searchlight, but with hydrophones and asdic. __________________