Oh, god! AKATSUKI, turn the light off, turn the light off, TURN THE LIGHT OFF. The Abyssals can see YOU as good as you see THEM. T_T (It's how she was sunk historically, I think.) Searchlights = Death.

Yeah, she died like a samurai lady (Jintsuu)

Imagine, though, how annoying it would be for TTKs if their shipgirls took appropriate tactical measures of their own accord.

thatjerk said:

Oh, god! AKATSUKI, turn the light off, turn the light off, TURN THE LIGHT OFF. The Abyssals can see YOU as good as you see THEM. T_T (It's how she was sunk historically, I think.) Searchlights = Death.

Yeah, but then they can't see the Abyssals and everyone dies/stalemate. Everyone has to do their job for success to be realized.

79248cm/s said:
Yeah, but then they can't see the Abyssals and everyone dies/stalemate. Everyone has to do their job for success to be realized.

Well, there's two ways night battles are fought. In the pre-radar/Searchlights era, both sides engage in a confusing clusterf*** where you just hope your ships are individually better than the enemy. The IJN won most of those battles, but the USN thought they won most of them because they're such a mess.

In the post-radar era, the side with better radar curbstomps the other side. This is what happened to Nishimura's Fleet, KMS Scharnhorst, and every time the Regia Marina ended up in night battle.