Think bubble kind of doe's what I like with TMO. The problem is if you get by the lead escort when you need to shoot you end up in front of the flank escort. What I do is try to come straight at the lead escort about 500 yards to his flank for a port setup on the convoy, the flank escort should be about 500 yards or more to my right. You need to come up after the front one passes. This works better for two lines. You want to come up about two hundred yards or so from the closest line in the convoy so you can shot at the line next to him at the front targets with a 45% or so.. I'll then speed up enough that I can shoot at the first line with my bows. Your shots are very close, 600 yards or so, your basically in the group that gets in the way of the escorts and you can turn and usually stay close enough to a merchant and ride with one out.
Course my favorite way is at night, a long range shot on the surface to pull the DD's away. You shoot from long enough range they don't see you, haul arse doing a end around. When they get to where your torps came from you should be long gone. That leaves a flank unprotected and you can do a closer surface attack coming in narrow, turn and run again. The DD's will come to that spot, but you'll be gone, repeat. With some light fog and poor moonlight I can get into about 2000 yards. Sometimes I'll dive flank and get closer and shoot and just stay flank to get away from where my torps came from why dived. Escorts will always come to where your torpedo's were shot from or where they saw you dive and work a 500 yard circle. If you stayed dived, haul arse, you'll have a few minutes before they get there, enough time to pull out of the circle.
The best thing about RSRD many convoys are huge and you can dive deep and come up in the middle of the group away from everything. If you're gonna dive to evade sonar, 43 on you need to get to 400 ft and you shouldn't get pinged.
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