Convoy disorder

[andacio-1981]

Today I have noticed something weird and I wanted to share with you . The convoy that I was after start acting weird . every one of the ships was going in diffrent direction . It was funny thought !
Is this a change of the devs or a bug?

[Kaleun_Prien]

Partly it´s historical reality. A convoy has ships with varying speeds. When the convoy came under attack the fastest ships went out of the convoy to escape as single ships to their destination or the next habour.

For the rest it was the task of the convoy commander to keep them in order. For that reason all merchant captains, escort captains and convoy commander had meetings before leaving their home port to set the rules how to react to an attack (changing course, directions etc.). But following this rules was not so easy depending on wheather conditions, visibility, technical problems etc.

[andacio-1981]

Partly it´s historical reality. A convoy has ships with varying speeds. When the convoy came under attack the fastest ships went out of the convoy to escape as single ships to their destination or the next habour.

For the rest it was the task of the convoy commander to keep them in order. For that reason all merchant captains, escort captains and convoy commander had meetings before leaving their home port to set the rules how to react to an attack (changing course, directions etc.). But following this rules was not so easy depending on wheather conditions, visibility, technical problems etc.

I agree with you and I don t mind because they are acting like this when I atack them ,but in this situation I wasn t atacking , they did not knew that I was there .I was stoped at periscope depth .

[Kaleun_Prien]

Strange???

[mookie0]

I've seen this several time, and my take on it is that the convoy is in transition to a new course heading. This will occur off capes and certain 0 minutes left missions that are circling.

[SubCruiser]

Hi mookie0,
there are a few missions on the map (esp. in phase II and III) with remaining time 0 min, that's right. It means they will not disappear. After they are solved they were new generated there.
The speciality of them is:

• they always change course (go in circles)
• they are harder escorted
• you gain more points by solving them

There are 4 search&destroy missions and 1 reconnaisance mission of this kind. Good to have them to get PP if needed and to practice with more difficulty.
Detailed explanations you find HERE but it seems the English translation is still under construction.