Posted by: sloanjh
« on: July 21, 2011, 09:17:39 PM »There is a decent tutorial on the wiki for combat that will help you. The simple way to do this is to split the task force into multiple squadrons of 12 facs (play with the fleet organization tab of F12 screen) When you get into combat go to the first ship in the fleet and set it up, without setting a target (F8) and then use the copy command to all ships of the same class in your empire. This will basically become your default set of missiles, launchers, fire-control and eccm for this class of ship. You can then set the target for one ship and use the copy to task force command to have all of the units in the task force target that single target. If you have broken your fleet down into those squadrons then it isn't to tough to do. Good luck with a fight. Save before you start so you can learn from your mistakes without having to start all over again.One thing to be careful of - unless they have 100% fleet training, you'll probably want to merge them back into a single TG before firing. This is because you'll want to set them to use synchronous fire, so they launch as one big salvo of missiles, rather than dribbling out over time (which makes it easier on the bad guy's anti-missile fire).
John