Lighthouse beacons

[Getback]

We need some lighthouse beacons for shoreline bases. Especially on the map with the heavy fog.

[LLogann]

That would be cool!!! 

 

[thndregg]

 

[APDrone]

Take it a little farther...

Apply the fog to the clipboard map so the coast cannot be seen.

Then make the lighthouses destructable.

If a lighthouse is destroyed, any fleet within the lighthouse's sphere of control could then have waypoints set with no warning of contacting land.  If the fleet runs aground, it is respawned at port.

Which raises an interesting question.. were the US coastal lighthouses blacked out during WW2?

[pwnorris]

After the first few months, the lighted beacons in lighthouses would have been shut down.  Foghorns and other aids, maybe.

Remember, the US didn't turn off the coastal lights for a couple of months.  Lots of ships were sunk by u-boats because they the u-boats could see them against the coastal lights.

[APDrone]

Remember, the US didn't turn off the coastal lights for a couple of months.  Lots of ships were sunk by u-boats because they the u-boats could see them against the coastal lights.

Yeah.. spent some time in Charleston and John's Island, SC. The houses there were equipped with blackout shades on all the windows ( 1980s ), still.   

Great for sleeping in on Saturdays after a particularly rough night of it.