How to fire star shells

[Kool Kat]

I wonder if the game could model spotlights?
Fixed positions, and ships of course, made heavy use of spotlights during night combat.

Hey Dan:

I know that on the early morning hours of the first day of the Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge), the Germans used searchlights to provide "artificial lighting" for their advancing troops. The searchlights bounced their beams off the low hanging clouds to produce a twilight lumination.

I'm not sure how you model this into CS... maybe give stationary combat units a better percentage chance to call in starshells on the first turn? :chin:

In the case of advancing troops, any kind of searchlight lumination "advantage" would need to be limited, since friendly forces would quickly move beyond the effective light range of the searchlights... and I don't see searchlight trucks / trailers limbering up to keep pace with advancing combat troops. Searchlights in WWII were used primarily for detection and tracking of enemy aircraft at night.