As long as your ships are in formation, fleet orders override ship orders. If you tell the ships to 'break formation' they revert to their individual design strategies.
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Yeah, it's true for task forces... but fleets?
IIRC the fleet beak up in separate task forces as soon as the combat starts... or maybe I just didn't use a Break Formation Immediately => FALSE Strategy for the fleet?