Yea - it's annoying to see this kind of bug. I see it often off the west coast of Ireland, with the convoys that travel N or S there. I've started wondering if it is a tactic to avoid getting torpedoed - like you say, it's tricky to get a good shot on them when they are stopping and starting. I've seen T3s go from 0 - 20 kts in a few seconds, inadvertently dodging my torp. It's hard to get a decisive kill shot on these messy convoys. On the other hand, as a whole, the convoy slows down a _lot_, allowing you to get ahead of them, etc. While it's dangerious, you can also put yourself right in the middle of the mess and fire like crazy into ships at point blank. If you have an XXI (2 minute reloads) then it can get really good. It's so dense in there that escorts cant get to you.
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