Thanks for explaining what I saw as dumb AI. It did cross my mind about depleted ammo or chasing me away as their primary goal and not sinking me but I figured that was 'too smart' of the AI lol.
Now, them crashing into each other and sometimes literally sinking each other trying to swarm up and depth charge me...that is dumb but even that has been known to happen based on some historic attack report military documents I've read (cross fire and such) but I don't think the AI was programmed to historically correct collide with each other because they all want to do a depth charge run at the same time lol.
I will say that they do chase me off but mostly because I got what I came for - not because they intimidated me.
I've had one of two things play out when I attack a merchant:
1. One escort is dispatched to handle me as the others remain with the convoy. I can take on one escort and torpedo it at point blank range as it proceeds a depth charge/ram my scope attack run. Once it's sunk, another escort is dispatched as the others remain with the convoy. Rinse repeat until every escort is sunk and the merchants are a shooting gallery for my deck gun unopposed.
2. Every single warship is dispatched and it's a cluster fudge of merchants swerving to avoid them as they flank to my position. I see up to a dozen warships bearing down on me and quickly dive deep and run silent and watch with the external cam as they hit each other, reverse the engines with collision alarms sounding, playing bumper cars with each other as I sing "Trollololllooollollolllollololol" as I pudder along to safety. Usually my map reflects at least one grey sunk icon indicating one of the warships was sunk by their own guys.
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