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Old 04-05-14, 03:21 AM   #11
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if you take a group of ships, out of 15 or 20 in a convoy there will most of the time be 3 or 4 that turn away while the others are quite happy and content holding the formation at "reasonable" distance. i think for most people, what "looks" like safe spacing distance can be too close by game standards as well as RL distances.
One often overlooked thing is that ships on the external columns should have the capability of running much faster than the set convoy speed. Otherwise they will never be able to keep station on the big circle they have to make around the convoy's pivot point when it changes direction.

SH4 does not recognize the difference between zig-zagging as a simple heading change pivoting on the same point, and a true course change of the whole convoy. It always asumes the latter, hence setting zig zagging patterns in the capmpaign files is not effective and tends to break up convoys.
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