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November 1st, 2002, 07:19 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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Is there a way to add your own formations in PBW?
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You could create a mod that has a modded formations file, and play the game with that. But unfortunately you can not add any formations from within the game. |
November 1st, 2002, 08:58 PM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
The Gold CD Extras include Raynor's Formation Editor, to help you mod the Formations.txt file.
Which formation is "best" depends on your preferred fighting style and both sides' ship designs, so it's hard to make recommendations.
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November 1st, 2002, 09:16 PM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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[QB]The Gold CD Extras include Raynor's Formation Editor, to help you mod the Formations.txt file.
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IIRC Rayonor's editor only allow's up to 30 positions. The latest Se4 patch's will allow up to 100 positions in your formations, so Raynor's editor is a little obsolete.
I recommend DavidG's SE4Modder though. It has a formation file editor that you cna add the full 100 positions with.
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November 2nd, 2002, 12:19 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
I no longer have one.
I used to use them all the time but with games now...fleets are greater than 50 so i get a nice group of ships together and the whole bottom of the combat screen is filled up with ships equally spaced apart. Not very good for capturing planets... As the planet is destroyed before you capture ships can get to it.
Real Pain...
I think this is one area that needs to be cleaned up...
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November 2nd, 2002, 04:05 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
I no longer have one.
I used to use them all the time but with games now...fleets are greater than 50 so i get a nice group of ships together and the whole bottom of the combat screen is filled up with ships equally spaced apart. Not very good for capturing planets... As the planet is destroyed before you capture ships can get to it.
Real Pain...
I think this is one area that needs to be cleaned up...
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The planet wont be destroyed if your strategy is set up correctly. What does happen from time to time with large fleets is the transport is blocked from reaching the planet and can't get to it to drop troops. Usually though the next run it gets through.
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November 2nd, 2002, 04:11 AM
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
I no longer have one.
I used to use them all the time but with games now...fleets are greater than 50 so i get a nice group of ships together and the whole bottom of the combat screen is filled up with ships equally spaced apart. Not very good for capturing planets... As the planet is destroyed before you capture ships can get to it.
Real Pain...
I think this is one area that needs to be cleaned up...
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The planet wont be destroyed if your strategy is set up correctly. What does happen from time to time with large fleets is the transport is blocked from reaching the planet and can't get to it to drop troops. Usually though the next run it gets through.
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I've seen 4 battles happen in a row before the transport was placed in a spot where it couldn't get to the planet. All the WPs were destroyed in the first combat. 
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Re: Formations - what\'s your strategy
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If the leader is destroyed, then I think the next available ship in the list is made the new leader.
You can have up to 100 ship slots in a formation now.
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What I have seen happen is when the leader is destroyed the formation is broken and all ship refer to individual strategy. I only observed this behavior in tactical auto solo play, so it may be different for simul-PBW.
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