[khagler]

Thanks for the answers!

The ship I was trying to refit was a frigate being refit to another frigate hull. It was basically the same ship, but replacing the ion engines with contra-terrene engines and removing a capital missile to add more beam weapons.

I didn't notice you could set strategies for units at construction. In fact, I didn't pay much attention to strategies at all (I normally control battles manually)--I guess I'd better correct that.

Oh, and one more question:

How many battles does a ship have to be in before its grade improves? I had a single frigate that destroyed two light cruisers and two destroyers, and it was only "Novice (2%)."