Escorts fighting each other!!??

[Benzin1973]

I realized i never played the "Convoy" mission on the tutorials section, so i decided to give it a try.
I whack the C2 with 2 torpedos, the small tanker with one, and one of the small merchants with the other one.
I dive to 50 meters to avoid the destroyer, and looking thru my observation periscope (lookin at the surface from below, i do it to see if the escort gets too close when i cant see it on hydrophone), i notice a series of small/medium splashes. Not dept charge splashes, something else.
Since i have no idea of what it is, i activate free cam and i see the destroyer shooting its main guns and machine guns like there is no tomorrow. But i am at 51 meters dept! what is he shooting at?

The other escort! :o

I see the other guy (i think its a corvette?) is just cruising arround without returning fire, burning and smoke coming out of it. His flag is the same as the destroyer attacking it. British.
I guess maybe they had a disagreement about the Brexit? :haha:

This happened in vanilla, but i was testing some modifications i made. Those modifications only affect the sensors and special effects, nothing regarding campain files or the units themselves.

So i need to know if this happens "normally" on vanilla, or maybe somehow my changes made it happen?

Anyone seen this happen before?

[bstanko6]

I have seen this before. I was in visual range of an inbound convoy and saw two destroyers shooting each other. It's rare but fun to watch!

[Benzin1973]

I have seen this before. I was in visual range of an inbound convoy and saw two destroyers shooting each other. It's rare but fun to watch!It sure is! :har:
Your reply is comforting. I tought somehow my mod had messed up the AI.
thanks! :up:

[Sailor Steve]

I tought somehow my mod had messed up the AI.
No worries there. What happened is that they wanted you to not attack neutral or friendly ships, so not only do you get renown removed but the country whose ship you attacked - even if it's your own - becomes your enemy for 24 hours.

This means that if you're in the middle of the convoy and an escort shoots at you and hits one of their own merchants, or even if a depth charge affects one of their own merchants, the other escorts now think that one is a enemy. The funny part is that sometimes unless the attacking escort causes damage to a merchant, the one that started it all won't fight back. I've seen a trawler sink a destroyer that just sat there and took it.

Weird stuff.

[Benzin1973]

Makes sense. So i guess one of them somehow accidentally damaged one of the merchants, and the other considered him an enemy and attacked.

I must say it was hilarious to watch! Some merchants burning and sinking while the others zigzag in terror, while that psycho destroyer guns down the corvette.... it was utter chaos! :haha:

My little mod (named "Enhanced Vanilla") is coming along nicely, i was worried i might have broken something in the AI.

Thanks Steve!