Ship runs away rather than close the distance for a manual gun attack

[Coiler12]

When ordering "engage target manually" with naval guns, I've found the ship ordered to engage runs away from the target rather than closing to engage it. Save featuring a cruiser and an unarmed cargo ship target attached.

[dagvl]

Set "Maintain Standoff" to "no" and it chases the ship correctly. I guess the maintain standoff ROE makes it go towards the long range of its SSMs and something (target ambiguity maybe?) makes it not fire them. Manually allocating the missiles works however.