[Strategical Combat] Query about ship placement

[Alneyan]

While playing a 2vs2 game (*Waves at Parabolize and Electrum*), I ran into a small problem with the way fleets are handled.

Does anyone know how you can ensure that a given ship will play before another one in a strategical battle? Or for this matter, how the different ships are placed within a given ship? After running a few experiments, it seems like the smaller crafts are the first to play, but I could be wrong. (And I do hope you can tweak around this)

Thanks in advance for any assistance regarding this problem!