Call for Reinforcements......I'm under attack

[Admiral Grover]

I have a new idea that could be inplemented in combat, although it would require quite a bit of hardcoding to get it to work.

Have any of you ever had a warp point defended by a starbase, and had about 2 dozen enemy ships jump through and attack? Have you ever wished you could call those 10 DN you have sitting at a planets 2 moves away and have them join the battle?

Well, this could be solved using a "Call Reinforcements" button in the orders menu in tactical combat. In this button would then bring up a list of any ships that can be at that sector within X amount of moves (say 5 moves away). YOu would then select the ships you want to join the combat. These ships would then show up in combat at the edge of the map at specific times. That is if the ship is 1 move away, it would show up in 5 combat turns; 2 moves away, 10 combat turns and so on.

I don't know if this idea is plausable at all, but I welcome your input.

Regards,
Admiral Grover