Poor AI or SOP?

CherryHarbey · 10-09-10, 12:08 PM

I found a small convoy heading north some way off the coast of Portugal. It contained 3 merchants and a Hunt II class destroyer. I hit each of the 3 merchants and went deep to avoid the destroyer. One the merchants sank quickly and the other 2 slowed to a stop.

The destroyer tried to find me, threw out some depth charges for a hour or so and then just salied on... leaving the 2 merchants for dead. (I waited for 16 hours of game time for them to sink but they didn't without 1 more torpedo each)

Finally, here's the point of the thread. Was this stardard procedure for escorts? I could understand if he still had one merchant left sailing to abandon any crippled ships to their fate but to leave the only the ships left in its care seems to defeat its entire purpose.

10-09-10, 12:08 PM	#1
CherryHarbey Engineer Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Derby, UK Posts: 200 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	Poor AI or SOP? I found a small convoy heading north some way off the coast of Portugal. It contained 3 merchants and a Hunt II class destroyer. I hit each of the 3 merchants and went deep to avoid the destroyer. One the merchants sank quickly and the other 2 slowed to a stop. The destroyer tried to find me, threw out some depth charges for a hour or so and then just salied on... leaving the 2 merchants for dead. (I waited for 16 hours of game time for them to sink but they didn't without 1 more torpedo each) Finally, here's the point of the thread. Was this stardard procedure for escorts? I could understand if he still had one merchant left sailing to abandon any crippled ships to their fate but to leave the only the ships left in its care seems to defeat its entire purpose.