05-09-2020, 04:29 PM
Fleet management is its own minor topic. For instance, you can have fleets of fleets (of fleets...). When I'm running around with a mixed group of ships I'll typically join together all the ships of each single type into fleets, and then join those fleets together to a main flagship. Then I can give the main flagship orders (such as ATTACK) and all the ships go on the attack.
But each subfleet might want to get into the combat in a different, specialized way. For instance, you might want the destroyers going after platforms and the drone ships shooting down incoming missiles, etc. For that you can give each separate sub-fleet a different COMBAT order, even while they're all still joined to the main flagship.
You can also break up the fleet if, at a later time, the faster ships need to get over to a hot spot while the slower ships are following up. If the faster ships are all in one (or a few) sub-fleets, those sub-flagships can be given independent orders to run over and help out while still maintaining their own fleet structure and without disturbing the rest of the fleet.
Many possibilities abound!
But each subfleet might want to get into the combat in a different, specialized way. For instance, you might want the destroyers going after platforms and the drone ships shooting down incoming missiles, etc. For that you can give each separate sub-fleet a different COMBAT order, even while they're all still joined to the main flagship.
You can also break up the fleet if, at a later time, the faster ships need to get over to a hot spot while the slower ships are following up. If the faster ships are all in one (or a few) sub-fleets, those sub-flagships can be given independent orders to run over and help out while still maintaining their own fleet structure and without disturbing the rest of the fleet.
Many possibilities abound!