Formations - what's your strategy

[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...

[geoschmo]

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...

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.

Geoschmo

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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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...

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.

Geoschmo

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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.

[ November 02, 2002, 02:12: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
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.

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.

[Skulky]

Leader Position Xpos := 10
Leader Position Ypos := 9
Leader Design Type := Any
Number of positions := 59
Position 1 Xpos := 9
Position 1 Ypos := 10
Position 1 Type := Any

What does the type entry mean? can you give a certain type of ship a certain position?

[Taera]

When speaking of formations i always strongly suggest trying out the Turbine formation. It has numerous advantages, mainly having the best ship spinning around.

As for numerous ships, i still think its a good idea to have several fleets at maximum ships.

idea: why there is no "flotile" option to fleet fleets?

[capnq]

Raynor's editor is a little obsolete.

Thanks, Geo; I didn't know that. I've never used the program; I just know it's there.

I've never come up with a formation that I thought would perform better than the stock ones.

[Suicide Junkie]

idea: why there is no "flotile" option to fleet fleets?

Hold the shift key, and click an number of fleets and/or ships.

They will all move as a group for one turn, giving you your flotilla.

[tbontob]

What the h... is "flotile"?

Is the intended word "flottila"?

What can the "Shift-click" of ships/fleet accomplish? Non-combat? Combat?

[geoschmo]

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.