Merchants/ Capital ships manouvre like sport cars

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Originally Posted by kstanb

Back the pattern of ship convoy movement (I am not talking the screening escorts which naturally will need to do more random movement), it is not realist to change, like Olympic synchronized swimmers, heading and speed every few minutes, when you are in a weeks or month long patrol, not possible. instead you have a zig-zag pattern of movement as it is in Silent Hunter.. just imagine trying to plot manually speed and course SH style..

You compare too much with SH.
In ColdWaters there are no convoys. There isnt an HX225 from Halifax to Liverpool. There is an invasion force from Murmansk to Bergen. Or replenishing ships to the Greenland Sea. These will be "merchants" operated by the Russian Navy and thus professional soldiers. The Boris Chiliken is classified as a "merchant" but was always a Navy vessel. And that invasion force is out there for a few days, not a patrol that lasts weeks or months.
Its not WW2 and not Silent Hunter.