The way I have implemented this was to engage the battleline first, drawing the vast majority of their fire and then running the smokemakers close, but not too close, to the enemy line.
With most of their fire directed at my own heavies the smokers don't recieve too much fire.
I lost a couple but most got through with minimal damage plus a few torp launches just to slow the foe down, keeping him within the smoked region.
The reduction in hits on my line was (I think) noticable.
I have only had one opportunity to try this so far so no accurate data yet but it seems to work.
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