Re: Large Fleets
Ships milling around doing nothing? I have never seen that happen when playing strategically with large formations. The AI usually plops the extras out as clumps out on the wings. For warp point battles, they are just a big blob in the center. I have been at war in a PBW game with another player who typically has much large fleets than me, I can say for a fact that when he has 60 armed ships they are all doing something. Otherwise, my smaller superior ships would be cleaning his clock every time. You must be refering to tactical combat for moving them.
I do agree that independentaly orderd squadrons within a fleet would be great. It would be nice to have missle ships that hang back and beams that close to either point blank, short, or optimal. Then I would also want a squadron of boarding ships that would target the 'biggest' enemy ships. As it stands today, you can only orchestrate separate orders on defense as an attacker cannot make multiple fleets conduct their movement simultaneously to resolve at the same time.
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