Destroyer AI in Grey Wolves

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Good post Wulf. I've only played GW, and it's fantastic. I feel the same that the convoys do need to be improved somehow. Don't ask me how because I have'nt much of a clue !

I tweaked a convoy in GW, the KMS. I made it look like the real thing. It was a bit heavy with 40+ ships, but the battle was incredible. I also tried to replicate the formation with specific spots for different freighters. I wanted to also add the names to the ships in the convoy to macth the real life ones, but I did'nt figure out how to do that or if it's possible at all. Must be I guess.

I got home with 45% Hull Integrity and hunted the convoy for about 3.5 weeks, before my bow tubes were destroyed. I made at least a dozen attacks on that convoy, taking one sheep at a time, sometimes two and three, but 2 or three times I broke off the attack to escape the escorts. Something interesting happened, I sunk an Aux Cruiser escort, and about a day later, a Clemson joined the formation, or at least was heading the same way, all the way to Alexandria. That one gave me a lot of worry.

Limping home, shot down a few aircraft, and sunk a Medium cargo with the deck gun with about 50 rounds. Docked at Tunis because I was'nt sure I would make it through Gibraltar, and also because there was another convoy that I met in this area, about 20 Kms NW of Valetta. I'm going back for that one, after I do a google, and try to replicate it in game.

I sense the trouble might be that the game will become too heavy if every single convoy if more than 40-50 ships, so I'll take them one at a time. See how far I can go before I run out of RAM and/or time.