[Slick]

Incredible. The whole point of a task force is to stay in formation with the leader (if not breaking formation). At first glance, it would seem to be a good strategy to put non-combatant ships in a separate task force and designate them as Core ships and add some tough hombres assigned to Escort duty - with the task force having the strategy of "Don't Get Hurt" or some custom non-combat strategy. But you can't specify the leader; *you can't even tell who he is*. The Leader is probably one of the Core ships, probably the first one listed, but who knows.


What the UI needs is an in-game Formation/Task Force interactive placement screen. Drag & Drop ships (or Task Forces) as desired for formation, then designate Leader, Core, Escort or Picket. It would also be nice to save these formations for use in the same or other games.