It dpeends, if you're doing your targetting manually, get as close as possible, if not you can safely take a bit more distance, especially when using T1 steamers at night, set those to medium and you can still hit a lot of ships that are near the edge of visual range.
when attacking from the sides of the convoy the main factor is whether the flanking escorts are close to the convoy, if they're real close, I then fire from long range, or if they are further out, say 2km away I try to get as close to the merchies as possible
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