How to set Leader in formation? |
I have this frustrating problem. I finally figured out how to use formations (reading the manual helps). But I have this frustrating problem. I have several technologically superior ships at a warp point. I tell them to attack ONE ship. Battle starts and my fleet runs and won't fire back at the ship.
I am assuming this is because my leader is damaged, so he runs and therfore the rest run. But even so, they don't fire back when fired upon. Even then there should be a way to have them manually attack. I select a ship and to specifically target. Then nothing happens.
How do I change my leader? No matter how I add them to a fleet, the same ship seems to always be leader.
OK....
A few things. First, its more likely that your ships are running away because they are out of supply/ordinance, check that -- some weapons require both.
Second, what you're describing might be the strategy screen, under the empires tab.
Third, check when you design your ships that you assign a type to them, as this will pre-assign t hem several strategies (otherwise, you will have to do that yourself, manually).
Fourth, having the fleet leader damaged probably wouldn't cause the entire fleet to run -- I don't use formations much, but that doesn't look right to me.
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
My supply ship...
My supply ship is in the leader position. Unfortunately it has no weapons and very little armor... as it is my supply ship, and thus has no need for weapons cause its suppose to run away...
I would also like to know how to re-order the fleet structure, short of disbanding the fleet.
Simulator is broke
The simulator is broken with regards to fleets, btw.
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
Possible Workarounds
There are two ways to deal with this problem that I came up with, since I haven't found a 'set leader' option either. The first, and simplest one, is to make your supply ships either escorts or pickets. While you're in the fleet transfer menu, highlight the ship you want to change, and the buttons should give you options for 'set escort' and 'set picket'.
The second, and possibly better, option is to move your supply ships out of the main attack task force into a secondary, support task force. I've never done much with the task force options, so you may have to remove the ships from the fleet temporarily to transfer them from one task force to another. Then, you can have the first task force move in to attack while the second task force uses a Don't Get Hurt strategy.
If your leader does for some
If your leader does for some insane reason go crazy, just disband the fleet during combat and your ships will do as you say.
Another question
I stumbled on the way to view, if not edit the ship reaction boolean terms. Like Don't get hurt, I can see the conditions it follows. Can anyone tell me how to get back there?
Also, when using a created race, how can you use one of the existing ship name sets with it?