[WIP] IRAI (Intelligent Random AI)

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by SteelViking

Edit: Nisgeis, so you are saying that the camp out tactic is unrealistic altogether?

It's all unrealistic, so it doesn't really matter, as the exercise is to make the escorts defend the convoy in the way in which the players would attack it, not a historical attack.

We don't have any problems of manouvering in bad weather, or cross wind like the U-Boats did in reality, so we can attack from anywhere. In real life, they'd attack either by working their way in from behind into the convoy (or possibly submerging ahead) or they'd have to attack from a certain direction ahead of the convoy, one at a time, due to prevailing weather conditions. None of that exists in game, so there is no point in simulating it.

For example, Operation Raspberry is designed to attack a U-Boat after it has worked its way in, attacked in the centre with torpedoes and submerged. I think most players here attack from the side, so Raspberry wouldn't do anything to them. The in game units have 100% sure communication and can vector in DDs perfectly, but this didn't happen IRL so that changes the dynamic of your attack - it's very dangerous to try to work your way into a convoy on the surface. You could modify it so that you could do it, but then people have all sorts of opinions about what is a relistic detection range at night when surfaced, so you may be hit by the 'realistic stick'.