by Citizen Stofsk - 6/17/2003 11:19:54 PM
Do Attack/Defence ratings combine with the number of ships you put into a fleet? Or does each ship fire their weapons one by one, and what determines the firing order?
Can someone tell me how fleets work, please? Is there any benefit to having them at all?
Cheers,
Stofsk
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The fleeting function is basically given to us to reduce micromanagement (ie. moving ships together rather than individually). When fleets fight, the combat is resolved one attacker to one defender sequentially.
Here's something from the manual:
Tip: If a fleet is attacked, the vessel with the highest combined attack and defense values will defend
first. If there are two ships with the same value, then the ship with the highest remaining hit points
defends. On the plus side, this means that the damaged ships will be sheltered by other ships of the
same class. On the down side, you can’t get a BattleAxe commander to throw his ship away
defending a damaged Dreadnaught: the BattleAxe will hide behind the Dreadnaught until the
Dreadnaught is destroyed, and only then fight.
In the current update 1.05.071, there is a bug which allows fleeted defenders to do much better than they are supposed to but that would be fixed in the next update.
         
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by Veteran Dark Rain - 6/20/2003 10:45:55 AM
Mmm I'm pretty sure I read in another thread that this was not a bug.
  
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Yes, that was really funny Dark Rain.
We thought it was a bug. Then it came out in the manual so we thought it was a feature. Then Stardock finally came out to clarify that the manual was wrong and that there was never a intention to have fleet bonuses.
So final verdict - Bug which would be fixed in next update.
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I'm new to Gal Civ. Can you tell me how to group or fleet ships?
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Somewhere to the right of the screen is a stacked ship list. Clicking on any ship with bring up a green arrows button there. Click to fleet. Click button below to unfleet.
Keyboard shortcuts to fleet is F. Unfleet is U.
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by Citizen Ookami - 6/25/2003 12:35:46 PM
Funny... I think there SHOULD be a bonus when 20 ships attack one enemy, vereus when one ship attacks it. It's the swarm factor - one bee sting will barely hurt you... but a hundred bee stings could kill you.
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