BBfanboy -> RE: Some questions (11/6/2018 2:23:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PetrOs Actually camoflage would be a nice feature for the game. As a ship model maker, I have taken alot of effort to understand the camo measures of the US ships. Some were designed to reduce ship visibility from air, some from sea, some against tropical island green background, some against temperate green background, some were highly visible but very disruptive, some being good at night, some at daylight... In game, it could be a good feature - apply a new camo measure to a ship. Each measure has modifiers in terms of air visibility, surface visibility, night air visibility, night surface visibility, coastal visibility, disruption, that could be both positive and negative. For example air visibility would reduce a chance of ship being spotted from the air or overlooked by a strike air group, surface visibility would increase the chance to let it slip away in surface combat, coastal visibility affects both air and sea visibility in coastal hex, and also acts as disruption value in coastal hex, and disruption reduces the chances that the ship is hit by gun or torpedo... Repaint requires a port, a few days offline and some supplies. A good camo could be decisive in reality - IJN barges used it very extensively, and during invasion of Green island (quoting Alan Raven's article from http://shipcamouflage.com/5_2.htm) quote:
The Japanese took full advantage of this cover [coastal foliage] in hiding their landing barges and machine gun emplacements. In an attack by the gun-boat 70, the barges were so well hidden that the native guide, brought on board ship for the purpose of pointing out their positions, was believed to be in error. At a distance of 40 yards they were absolutely indistinguishable from the surrounding foliage. After opening fire on their positions, and being fired upon in return, there was little doubt as to their presence. Interesting comment about the bugs - never thought of that! [:D] I did see a picture of a US CA that had been torpedoed moored very close to the shoreline with cam nets over it, presumably while it made patch repairs before it moved on to a port that could help stabilize it. My question is - where did they get the cam netting to cover a ship that big? Surely it was not carried as standard equipment - space and tonnage on a ship is precious! My guess is that nearby land units provided the nets.
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