What Controls the escort AI?

Originally Posted by Daniel Prates

What I particularly dislike in SH4's DD caracteristics is how they speed up to 30 knots in seconds (which is not so much a matter of game AI than it is of bad depiction of mechanical limitations of what such ship could do).

As I understand it, speeding up like you were driving a motorciclye was either impossible or could seriously damage the machinery. The game does not seem to consider that.

Would reducing the engine power in the .sim file of the destroyers (keeping the maximum speed intact) fix this to some extent?