[propbeanie]

Have you got that old v17 SH3 Mission Editor pdf? They go somewhat into escort assignments and leaders of the pack, not in great detail, and they never do explain why a tanker reacts differently from a liner, differently from a freighter, but... I've got the thing here somewhere... probably on the other computer. Anyway, between that thing and the experiments I've been doing, and reading just about every thread / post on this, including yours over the years, you get an idea of what ~might~ happen... In your case there? I dunno... You could a cruiser the leader, if there's one in the group, though the CA seem better at it than the CL. However, I'd use one of the tankers that are in the middle of the group. The number of, and order vessels are added into a group matters on where they end up in "the grid", as has been documented multiple times on this site, quite often with conflicting advice. The escort vessels do not make good leaders.

I made some test missions when s7rikeback and I were trying to sort out the issues with the AOTD Pensacola CA, and we got all sorts of "strange" out of some "Tafee" groups. Each one stranger than the previous it seemed. I never did figure out why the DD would just go wandering off like that, but just put it off to independent "sub-hunting", since they would usually be doing a bunch of knuckles out there somewhere. It might be just one that did it, or two, but sometimes it was all four in the one group I'd made... Sort of like that RGG of yours that generated all 5 vessels the same... but they left a CL, a CA and a CV without a screen... "There will be no investigation, there will be no court martial, this will go directly to the punishment phase"...