Question: Gunnery Dusk, Dawn, and Glare

[vox]

From the SAI Player’s Manual v1.50

11. Gunnery

…Dusk (firing eastwards in dusk or westwards at dawn is penalised)

….Glare (firing within 45 degrees of the sun within one hour of sunset or sunrise, provided weather is clear or partly cloudy).

The effect of Dusk/ dawn seems the opposite of what I expect. As a novice am I missing something? Could someone expand on the effects of dusk /dawn and glare in SAI? How can these effects be used by the player.

Thank-you.
BTW Love the game

[philo32b]

Firing eastwards at dusk and having a penalty with gunnery is exactly what happened for the British at Jutland. At dusk the sun setting in the west highlights ships farther to the east. And ships to the east can be hard to pick out to ships in the west from the gloom.

To be honest, I never remember this factor when playing this wonderful game. I do always make sure my smoke isn't blinding my gunners, though, and I always check to see what factors are influencing my final gunnery chances. I just don't remember dusk/glare showing up very often.

[vox]

Thanks philo! I checked a bit more online and found that there are 3 different definitions for dusk and dawn( civil, nautical and astronomical) that are based on the angle of the sun’s position below the horizon. Civil, nautical, and astronomical are 6, 12 , and 18 degrees respectively. Hence my confusion. I was confusing twilight with dusk

Ok, I think I got this. As an example lets say that my ship during nautical dusk is targeting another to the EAST. That target will be in shadow , while my ship would be silhouetted.

The Manual’s definition of Glare makes perfect sense. I have seen the word “Glare” pop up on the upper left of the game screen while playing SAI and Details Accuracy Report(-40).

All this started after playing SAI “Battle of Coronel” scenario and reading more about it and how Cradock tried to force action while sun glare was in the German eyes in their ships to his East. But “As soon as the sun set the situation would reverse. The German ships would be in darkness and the British ships in silhouette against the sunset glow.” Now it all makes sense to me .