How did these guys get past the scouts?

[thedoctorking]

I've had this a couple of times: battle gen at night puts enemy ships between elements of my formation, begging the question of how they got in there without being spotted. Maybe they're actually submarines?

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[EwaldvonKleist]

Ships getting spotted late at night or heavy rain most likely is WAD. Before radar spotting and better situational awareness tech, naval engagements at bad visibility were chaotic. I recommend Drachinifel's episode about the 2nd Pacific Squadrons voyage and how they fired on English Fishermen due to confusion.

Edit: Are you referring to the initial placement? In this case there probably is a bug. I also had instances of two fleets with dozens of battleships spawning on top of each other. Minute two or three everyone is spotted and quickly dies from mutual torping.

[thedoctorking]

Yes, this was the initial setup. Or rather after one or two minutes they appeared in each other's lap.

[thedoctorking]

I had a fleet battle the other day where the battleships appeared on each other's doorsteps at night. My guys turned away at once but the AI was messing around trying to form line of battle and I got literally dozens of torpedo hits. I sank six of his BBs (though several of those were in the post-sunrise slugfest).

[WLRoo]

The AI got the separation distance wrong in that deployment.

Note that the Scout formation has their brown 'gun range' circle just covering their division-mates - but the grey dotted 'spotting distance' circle is tiny.

[MaximKI]

Thanks for the report on the initial placement. We'll investigate.