[Armistead]

usually when they know you're there, the game ai has one terrible behavior, the group slows down and basically they helm left and right, not a real zig pattern.. i've chased TF going 19 or more knots at night with no hope of catching them and shot over and over from long range with the deck gun until i hit one just so they would slow down for me...or shoot a torp from long range out of site by radar close enough they would see it and slow down and sometimes even get lucky. sometimes, but rare it seems, attacking merchant convoys, they do more realistic tactics, the ships take off in different directions, different speeds, but slowly work back together as a group as escorts hunt you....