Talk:Haruna/@comment-5256985-20140728162554/@comment-25139231-20140729140957

Dazzle was useful in WWI during naval battle fought with cannon at relatively close range and it's effect was only to make more difficult to hit a moving ship, on long distance shell take some time and without proper aim correction they could miss the ship. They could also make difficult to understand the position of the turret or weapon, or to be precise what hey are aiming to, but this was possible due to old tipe of aiming equipment some of them even use a big but simple binocular for aim purpose with crew member calculatng the distance.

During WWII the introduction of new aiming sistem and computing machine radar on board the ship and aerial artillery spotting reduce Dazzle effectiveness almost to zero (you will not be able to aim precisely on the window of the Bridge but you will probbably hit it). About ship classification you use the ship template from the side from the front and from the back (and from above if you are a plane) so it does not matter if it has Dazzle or not, it will cause problem if the ship are almost identical (sister ship like kongou) but from different classes of ship the differences are evident (compare yamato kongou and fusou class template).

Against planes Dazzle is useless if not even a disadvantage making ship easier to spot and subject to air attack, usually the upper side of a ship is not camouflaged but even if you put Dazzle camo on every part of a ship it would be useless. Dive bomber get really close to the ship before releasing the bombs and they will easily see what they are going to hit for torpedo bomber does not matter were they hit cause the objective of the torpedo is to simply opening hole in the hull making the ship sink also the close distance where the torpedo are dropped plus the slow speed and big size of a ship make it really hard to miss