You can kind of see how wise it was to paint your nightfighter in light colours. You can be staring out the window looking for some landmark or hostile, without realising you're staring at your own wing. Getting the ghost of an outline helps a lot with maintaining ones orientation.

lol yeah I've done that.

Although the real reason was because of all the clouds. With clouds lit by fires, flares and searchlights, a black plane stands out a lot!

Thanks Ian, just played the mission and I can say that is the probably the most fun i've ever had in Il2, kind of like Silent Hunter in a bf-110, lol. I tuned the BD beacon, flew towards it, and loitered until the searchlight picked up an aircraft. I could see the white belly above me for a while until it disappeared out of the range of the searchlight, I knew he was heading for the target, so I tuned AR and climbed up towards the beacon. I reached AR and saw him again near the target, lit up by searchlights. Just flew in down behind him and shot him down, never got shot at once. Loitered again at AR going back and forth over the beacon, really fun. I would like to try this on a moonless night with some mosquitos loitering, but I suppose we will need to wait for radar, or at least AI that can use radar instead of visual tracking. Something that I suppose will need to be done for the future, outside of multiplayer is an intelligent AI crew member that can give radar information to the pilot. However I have started on a campaign based on your ideas.

Thanks a lot Tempest! I'm really glad someone gets it. I'm guessing less than 10 people will give it a proper go as it is so different to what people are used to.

I have a dumb question but I don't see the difficulty option for turning on FoW icons in the difficulty switch menu?

It's on the third page (I know there used to be only 2 pages). Third one down iirc.

Shot down six bombers in one sortie yesterday. But with moon :) And I'm not very good at gunnery so someone else should be able to shoot more. I Love those night missions!

Ahh thanks, DT and their stealthy "next" buttons, lol.