Formations - what's your strategy

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Taera:
maybe its Flottila. dont know the exact word. Doesnt matter, you got what i was saying. the problem is, they WILL move together on the first turn when you shift-selected them, but then they will move on their own.

Yes, but even on the first turn although they seem to move together, they won't attack together.

Geoschmo

[Fyron]

Did you use the Attack order or the Move To order?

[PaladinX]

Funny, I've used it, and they attacked together... Maybe they don't attack together in simultaneous, I wouldn't know.

-Paladin

[Suicide Junkie]

Shift clicked fleets will move together to the same places, but not neccesarily at exactly the same moment. I did some tests with it and could never get them to attack at the same time, regardless of varying fleet speed.

I used it to attack a super-heavyweight defended planet in simultaneous (Play by LAN). I shift-clicked to send in an unfleeted Battlemoon, a fleet of support ships, and two 120 ship fleets.
Result: one combat, with 250 ships spread across the entire right half of the combat map.

About five ships shot at the planet (since they started in range), and a transport decided to retreat to the far corner. As it passed the planet, it decided to drop its troops as well.
The fleet stopped firing at the 30-odd massive platforms since my troops were on the surface, and my ships got ripped to shreds.

The only survivors were: the battlemoon, the minesweepers and repair ships, and the troops on the surface.

[Skulky]

that sure sucks. Why didn't your troops capture though? I would've thought that would've been good as you could've gotten the planet at least semi intact.

[Fyron]

In P&N, there is only 1 ground combat round per game turn (or is it 2, I forget). In the normal game, there are 10. So, it takes a while to capture the planet. Of course, dropping more troops on the planet starts another ground combat, so multiple transports can make more than 1 round of ground combat happen in a turn.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

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Shift clicked fleets will move together to the same places, but not neccesarily at exactly the same moment. I did some tests with it and could never get them to attack at the same time, regardless of varying fleet speed.

I used it to attack a super-heavyweight defended planet in simultaneous (Play by LAN). I shift-clicked to send in an unfleeted Battlemoon, a fleet of support ships, and two 120 ship fleets.
Result: one combat, with 250 ships spread across the entire right half of the combat map.

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Interesting. Apparently this was changed at some point since I tested it, cause I just ran some more tests now and confirmed what you are seeing. Don't remember what Version I was using before when it didn't work. Nice to see it does now, but I dont' see anyhting in the history anywhere that it was changed.

Geoschmo