Convoy Orders
make future turns easier.
They take a few extra orders to set up (I used another 80-order turn to establish convoy routes), but then they run on their own without further input. To get started, issue the CNVR order, giving it a name, then record your actions, then issue CNVR again to stop recording. Here's a sample for a colony ship going to Galactica 2 from your homeworld of Galactica 3.
CNVR Colony Galactica 2
NM 999 Galactica, 2 (moves dummy fleet 999 to Galactica 2, Priority 10)
OC 999, Galactica 2 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 20)
LC Galactica 2 pop group #, 999, Iron, 25000, Crystals 25000 (Priority 30)
NM 999, Galactica, 3 (Priority 40)
OC 999, Galactica 3 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 50)
LC: Galactica 3 pop group #, 999, Colonists 100, Construction Materials 40000, Processed Radioactives 5000 (Priority 60)
CNVR Colony Galactica 2
You don't enter Priorities, but it helps to note them in your Turn Planner, as you'll see in a moment.
The '999' is just a placeholder. There isn't any fleet doing this until I assign one, which I can do with, say Fleet 102:
CONV 102, Colony Galactica 2, 50
I did so at Priority 50 because an assigned ship enters at the next priority, and if it is starting at my homeworld, the first thing I want it to do is load colonists and supplies (Priority 60).
It's similar for an interstellar convoy:
CNVR Colony Relien 1a
MOVE 999, Galactica, 50505 (moves fleet 999 - a dummy placeholder later to be assigned a real fleet - to Galactica WP 50505, Priority 10)
WARP 999 (Priority 20)
NM 999 Relien, 1a (moves dummy fleet 999 to Relien 1a, Priority 30)
OC 999, Relien 1a pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 40, etc)
LC Relien 1a pop group #, 999, Iron, 25000, Crystals 25000
MOVE 999, Relien, 20202
WARP 999
NM 999, Galactica, 3
OC 999, Galactica 3 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL
LC: Galactica 3 pop group #, 999, Colonists 100, Construction Materials 40000, Processed Radioactives 5000
CNVR Colony Relien 1a
Then I can assign a fleet to this convoy at Priority 90 so it begins with Priority 100, loading at my homeworld.
Convoy ships will keep running their routes until altered... or destroyed. See Preparing for Combat, next.
make future turns easier.
They take a few extra orders to set up (I used another 80-order turn to establish convoy routes), but then they run on their own without further input. To get started, issue the CNVR order, giving it a name, then record your actions, then issue CNVR again to stop recording. Here's a sample for a colony ship going to Galactica 2 from your homeworld of Galactica 3.
CNVR Colony Galactica 2
NM 999 Galactica, 2 (moves dummy fleet 999 to Galactica 2, Priority 10)
OC 999, Galactica 2 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 20)
LC Galactica 2 pop group #, 999, Iron, 25000, Crystals 25000 (Priority 30)
NM 999, Galactica, 3 (Priority 40)
OC 999, Galactica 3 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 50)
LC: Galactica 3 pop group #, 999, Colonists 100, Construction Materials 40000, Processed Radioactives 5000 (Priority 60)
CNVR Colony Galactica 2
You don't enter Priorities, but it helps to note them in your Turn Planner, as you'll see in a moment.
The '999' is just a placeholder. There isn't any fleet doing this until I assign one, which I can do with, say Fleet 102:
CONV 102, Colony Galactica 2, 50
I did so at Priority 50 because an assigned ship enters at the next priority, and if it is starting at my homeworld, the first thing I want it to do is load colonists and supplies (Priority 60).
It's similar for an interstellar convoy:
CNVR Colony Relien 1a
MOVE 999, Galactica, 50505 (moves fleet 999 - a dummy placeholder later to be assigned a real fleet - to Galactica WP 50505, Priority 10)
WARP 999 (Priority 20)
NM 999 Relien, 1a (moves dummy fleet 999 to Relien 1a, Priority 30)
OC 999, Relien 1a pop group #, ALL NO FUEL (Priority 40, etc)
LC Relien 1a pop group #, 999, Iron, 25000, Crystals 25000
MOVE 999, Relien, 20202
WARP 999
NM 999, Galactica, 3
OC 999, Galactica 3 pop group #, ALL NO FUEL
LC: Galactica 3 pop group #, 999, Colonists 100, Construction Materials 40000, Processed Radioactives 5000
CNVR Colony Relien 1a
Then I can assign a fleet to this convoy at Priority 90 so it begins with Priority 100, loading at my homeworld.
Convoy ships will keep running their routes until altered... or destroyed. See Preparing for Combat, next.