[Puke]

i had a few that i had thought about making, but since they would have to go into a mod to be supported on PBW or anything like that, i had been holding off until i made more progress on the PCM.

Basically, i wanted to take advantage of the ship types to put defense ships in the front of a formation, possibly on a double wall or at the tips of an inverted arrowhead. that way you could stick shield or PD ships out there to soak up the hurting while your missile boats or long range gunships dealt it out from the rear.

using good formations really encourages you to limit fleets to 21 ships and to design them around ship types wisely. of course, you can integrate things in there like support ships, resupply, scanning, sweeping, carriers, whatever - and have those break formation thus having larger fleets while not screwing up your pattern. you could also let your missile ships break formation and hold your gunboats and defense ships to a tight pattern. unfortuneatly, this is currently only feasable in single player untill someone includes good formations and shiptype / strategy files in a mod. I will toss them into the PCM, but they are going at the end of a long list.

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