So, I've been playing this awesome game for a little while now, and I've finally got a fleet of military ships rolling out of the shipyards. I've created a new Task Force, the Colonial Defence Force, which will be based at our main extrasolar colony at Barnard's Star until we can build something with a flag bridge - a little oversight there by our Naval R&D guys!
So, I create a task force, assign a commander, the game auto-assigns all the other staff posts. I move to assign ships to that TF. After figuring out that the drop-down at the top left of the F12 window won't do it, I come here and read that the Naval Organisation tab to the right of that window. But I can't figure out what to do there. Fleet Headquarters and the Colonial Defence Force appear on the left, and there's a load of buttons on the right. The way I figure it I've got to add a "Branch" to the new Task Force then I can add my task group(s) to that?
Only I can't figure out how to add a branch. I click the TF I want, then click "Add" under "Modify Organisation Branches" and I get a popup that says "Please select a task force or branch on the organisation chart to which you wish to add a sub-branch. " But I thought that's what clicking on "Colonial Defence Force" (so it's highlighted) was! I thought that thing on the left with just the two TFs was the "organisation chart"! What am I missing here? How do I "select a task force or branch", and is that indeed what I need to be doing to get my fleet training?
Also, they have to be in the same system as the Task Force Command to benefit from their TF Training bonuses, right? So if I train them in a system with their commanders on a colony then send them next door to where there appear to be some hostile contacts, they'll operate as if untrained unless I refit one of my cruisers to have a Flag Bridge? But that's a much smaller problem, I can't get Task Forces to work at all, never mind moving them around just yet!
Thanks in advance.
