Task forces

[Sinapus]

How about being able to group fleets into sub-fleets, i.e., task forces or squadrons? Something so you can put your heavy close-combat ships in one group to close with the enemy and have your missile ships and carriers in another to stay back.

You can do something like it by simply putting each type into separate fleets and using the group move command to select and move them on the strategic map in turn-based mode. The only problem is that it takes some extra effort to move them and if you give them move commands that take more than one turn to execute they move one at a time, which can have your carriers running into that huge enemy fleet you were going to hit en masse w/o support from your heavy warships.




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