I find punching an escort in the nose usually works at distracting the others.
I know there are many an argument against this, but my method of attack that works more often than not is ... taking out an escort first.
Usually one downed or damaged DD is enough to ward off the others or I find the other DDs "pack" around where the injured/sunk DD is and search from there.
After the attack I usually go Thermal and 1/3 ahead or back (depending on my needs). I run 1:1 time when in situations like this too, and many is the time I am a good 4 - 5 hours of real time slinking away.
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