Don't know, jungman. The reality was that the large majority of japanese shipping was not convoyed at all, so the skippers would zig zag as they personally saw fit. I have no references with that level of detail on convoy doctrine, sadly. I'll keep an eye out.
I'd be really interested in any automated way to do the zig-zags.
Seems like you could make a script/program that would open a .mis file, and for each group it would take the 2 waypoints, and make the changes automatically. Then you can reopen the mission, and drag the first waypoint into port, and add any others you need.
Perhaps it could make zig-zags between every other pair of waypoints. Like between 1 and 2 it zig-zags, then straight between 2 and 3, then zig-zag 3 to 4, etc.
You'd set it up as a standard using the waypoint pairs that start with an even number to change course, then back to zig zag.
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