Exploiting the predictability of 'serpentining'

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

Even allowing for "it's just a sim." I also find this behavior puzzling and disappointing. While ships in convoys were, I believe, expected to keep station with discipline, leaving ASW to the escorts, I cannot believe a lone vessel would plod resolutely on in predictable swings.

Way back in SH1 a lone ship would turn his tail to you and try to keep you behind him as he ran. If you surfaced and ran around him he would again turn away. This was the best behaviour I've seen in any of these "sims".