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Originally posted by wingte:
Really need the SE III feature of being able to highlight multiple ships and send all of them to the same place without having to establish a "fleet" first. Either that,, or there needs to be a way to turn off the "fleet stratege/formation" during tactical combat.
You can. SHIFT-CLICK on the ships and a little arrow/triangle will appear beside them... now you can issue orders and all of them will follow. There is a problem, though. If your ships finish the movement in the same turn you give the orders, the ships AFTER the first one don't get their orders cleared, and will repeat the orders on the next turn if you don't go clear them manually. If you send them off on a movement that takes more thanone turn to complete it seems to work ok.
You can cancel a formation in combat, too. Select the lead ship in theformation is choose "clear formation" on the orders menu. This will clear ALL ships from the formation.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 24 September 2000).]