So, I've got a cruiser with a wing of bombers.
And I've got a battle where some of the enemy ships just... wandered off somewhere.
Bombers on regroup try to hide behind the carrier.
So all I had to do to track them down was fly away from where my fighters had decided to gather.
(I think the fighters also pointed themselves at the nearest target, too.)
On the other hand, if I -hadn't- been able to do that, it would have been -really- annoying to try and track down, say, the one enemy destroyer that had gone wandering up against the left side of the map. (This was a fight against survey drones, so 'letting the enemy retreat' wasn't an option. Unlike previous reports of drones wandering off, this wasn't an out-of-ammo issue; I think there had just been enough drones that a few of them lost track of me, got out of sensor range, and then couldn't find me again.)