Worst place to start a combat...

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Maerlyn:
what happened was: all my ships started in the middle right next to the warpgate while their three fleets were parted and were sitting in three corners of the map.

Yep yep, and your opponents learned a hard and valuable lesson that day. Don't try to guard a warp point with ships from an ally.

In fact if it's an important warp point, I'll insist my allies not even travel through it if they can avoid it because of the off chance an enemy fleet could come popping through at the same time as them, totally screwing up my defensive advantage.