Combat formations

[Seawolf]

Can't find the orginal post but someone was complaining about moving 1 ship at a time and that foramtions we useless. I want you to know that you can make multi formations in a combat. During your turn under the options button to your right it shoudl give you an option to create a group leader and assign group numbers to ships. This way you can create multi "V" formations for instance that would better simulate what you want your ships to do rather than 1 big "V". Give it a try

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Seawolf on the prowl

[General Hawkwing]

Seawolf's comment is right. It comes in handy when fleets get to be around a dozen or so.
Also someone once posted that the AI does not appear to use fleets. I just had a small combat (10 vs 8) Last night. I have also seen combats between 2 AI players with fleets of about a dozen each.

[This message has been edited by General Hawkwing (edited 12 October 2000).]

[Jubala]

I want to be able to assign Groups for a fleet before battle with different orders and formations for each group. You can't change this stuff in strategic and it gets tediuos to do in tactical after awhile.

[Seawolf]

Hurm... can't do it in stragigic... a possible suggestion?

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