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Old October 15th, 2001, 12:31 AM
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Default Large Fleets

is there any way to let a 23+ships fleet fly in formation?
the standard formations only manages 22 ships, if you have, say, 70 ships all you get is chaos....any way around this?
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Old October 15th, 2001, 01:10 AM
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Default Re: Large Fleets

Besides breaking the fleet into two fleets and flying them around together?
Or manually creating custom formations?
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Uh? Fleet formations are limited to 22 ships? I never knew that ! Where do you get that info from?

So that explains why my fleets seldom obey their formation orders...
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Default Re: Large Fleets

It's pretty simple. None of the fleets built in have places for more than that number of ships, so the extras just mill around.

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Default Re: Large Fleets

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Besides breaking the fleet into two fleets and flying them around together?
Or manually creating custom formations?




If you break the fleet into two fleets and want to attack the same enemy with them( -> one combat with two fleets, in simul games)and lets say they have the same movement allowance, will that be possible? Or will the attacks be resolved one after another?

Can you use custom formations in PBW games? And, if yes, can the custom form. have more than 22 ships?
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Can you use custom formations in PBW games? And, if yes, can the custom form. have more than 22 ships?
You can only use them if the game server has those formations installed. I tried to use a custom formation from the TDM-ModPack once in an unmodded PBW game, and the server used the default Arrowhead instead.

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