You could, for example, make a layer for allied convoys. Instead of working out everything for each group, just make a group, plot the paths. Do that for 25 convoys.
Run the automated editor with a script that populates each group with ships---randomly, but name, whatever. Have it randomize radius waypoints, randomize cargoes, have it change convoy speed every waypoint, have it zig zag the convoys... Anything.
All you had to do was to place the initial paths. BTW, you can make paths with a few close together waypoints to get out of port, then just a couple to get to the destination, then a few close together to get into port. The editor script can then add all the waypoints in between for any long legs---as many as you like.
It's incredibly powerful. Lurker wrote a script that banged out an entire random campaign in one run of the program.
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