There was a trick in SH3 where you could positon yourself between ships and end up having them shoot one another.
Also if you are too close to a ship their big guns cannot be trained low enough.
I havent seen this behaviour personally. As a matter of fact I ran accross a lone merchant which I decided to try to take out with deck gun only to save torps.
I was a bit dismayed when they started shooting back. On their third round they landed a shell nearly amidship and knocked half my crew silly and did some minor damage.
At great risk we decided to dive and repair and get the heck outa there.
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