How to use flares on night time?

[Boss of this gym]

Hello, saw a guy play a game during night time and he could not find the enemy for about an hour or so, it was night time and there were few infantry units in the battle, it wasnt a large scale fight.

Anybody knows how to use flares at night? or if its even possible? This is keeping me from buying the game. Don't want to play 1 hour long small scale battles where i have to run around to find the enemy.

[Flan]

You can turn the night battles off.
Some of the off map artillary have flare shells and units will use them as well but usually after they detect an enemy.

[FlashBurn]

Artillery spotters have flares if the gun type used them. Like rocket artillery does not have flares. Some of the stupid big guns of the Germans are never used to fire flares either. Sort of retarded firing flares out of like a 240mm cannon. So far, only off screen arty has the flares. So you need to keep these spotters safe.

And night battles work both ways. you want to try and kill armor with infantry? This is when you do it. Day time they die most often. You want to over run enemy guns with as few guys wasted as possible... night time. Oh yes....In Mius you can even order hold fire and sneak into a gun pit. Its rather funny. Then your guys chuck grenades or satchels if they got them. And the enemy has no idea where to shoot at you.