PBW - Fleet movements?

[willi]

Just in the past few days I accidently discovered an answer to this. I was playing a simultaneous movement game by e-mail with friends. I had assumed up to then that if a group of ships (not in fleet) in one sector moved to another sector, they would all arrive at same time - at least for combat purposes. So I ordered 4 ships - three were identical class - to move to warp point. Unfortunately, there was an enemy ship there and I ended up with 4 separate combats, all of which I lost. (When I ran a simulation of combat between my 4 ships and the enemy ship, I won easily.)

As an aside, I also discovered that a mine layer will execute its orders to lay mines before combat occurs. Interesting!

[geoschmo]

I can confirm this as well. I tested it Last night. Tried various combinations of single ships and fleets all using the shift click to send them into combat together. They all had the same speed.

They all get there, but not at the same time. I guess the only way to do that is have one large fleet.

Geoschmo