Retreating Fighters?

[Barronosod]

I scanned the forums to find the answer to this one, but it might be slightly different than previously addressed issues.

I have a fighter group of about 210 fighters, a mix of rocket designs and beam designs. They're fully supplied and ordinance. They have no orders. When I move them to attack an enemy fleet, they retreat instantly. Oddly, at one point I tried removing 5 random fighters from the group, and then the remaining task force did attack.

Any thoughts?

[Randallw]

might those 5 fighters have a strategy of "don't get hurt"?

[Barronosod]

I don't believe so, as all of my fighter designs have a strategy of Fighter Attack. How do I change the strategy of a fighter group/fleet?

[Randallw]

You could place the fighters into a fleet and give them all the same orders via fleet strategy, however stock strategies sometimes have "break formation" as standard. You need to make a copy of the strategy via the empire options tag and tell "break formation" to be false. Then the fighters will all stick to the one strategy.

[Dan_]

Barronosod, can you attach your savegame here? If you can/do, someone can look at it and tell you straight away what the cause is.

[Barronosod]

Sounds good to me. How do I attach the game to the post? I assume it's the .gam file?

Thanks all