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akbrown -> Surprised at night by burning CA's (8/10/2002 7:48:28 AM)
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This is a fairly minor thing that I have only seen once so far.
I had a surface combat TF which I sent to Lunga to intercept Japanese transports. They arrived at night and promptly ran into a Japanese surface TF, and they fought it out. After the battle a few of my CA's were in various states of damage. There then followed another night surface engaement by the same force vs a Japanese transport TF. At the start of the second engagement I saw a message saying that both TF's were surprised, and the action opened at a pretty close range. During this second battle my ships were not hit, and they sank a couple of Japanese transports :)
At the start of the next turn I inspected my surface combat TF. As indicated in their first engagement vs the Japanese cruisers, three of my CA's were damaged, and they each had several fires on board (one of them was heavily damaged and had quite a few fires). Since this damage must have occurred during the first engagement, this implies that the Japanese transport TF was surprised, at night, by several burning, and presumably highly visible, US CA's.
I suspect that the UV program, when it determines whether task forces attain surprise at night, do not take into consideration whether there are ships in the task force that have fires on board.
If so then maybe this can be changed?
I know this isn't very important but I thought that I would point it out.
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