Talk:Searchlight/@comment-1421453-20150122075056/@comment-25977430-20150609211037

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"I am extremely late but I want to add this (wikipedia heh) quote anyway: "At least six of the U.S. ships—including  Laffey,  O'Bannon,  Atlanta,  San Francisco,  Portland, and  Helena—fired at  Akatsuki, which drew attention to herself with her illuminated searchlight. Akatsuki was hit repeatedly and blew up and sank within a few minutes. "

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Well, Other IJN Ships had Juicy USN targets for Torp attack while the Serchlights were up, so it was not necessarily a bad thing for IJN. Quite a few IJN ships turned on Serchlights at the same time, Akatsuki was just too close (She tried to follow Yuudachi for a while, but Yuudachi went all the way into USN formation and Akatsuki broke off to create some distance). Upon switching on the Searchlights, she became primary target within seconds. With loss of one DD on IJN Side, Multiple USN Cruisers got hit by Torps. (btw, Yuudachi was also sunk in the same fashion later in the battle - she turned on her Searchlight while sailing between two USN destroyers).

I think the game simulates the effect Searchlights had in NB nicely.

BTW, a fine example of simmilar Turn on searchlights->get sunk->wreck enemy fleet  is one other battle (Tassafaronga).