I have been tinkering around with the formation controls of
Task Groups in the game and I really find these super fun.
I have now devised a plan for how I will protect my larger battle groups and how I will perform different actions. In the picture below you could see one of my large battle groups deployed in an offensive formation.
http://firedragon.mine.nu/Aurora/Tactical_Pictures/CV_formation.jpgThe blue lines are missile sensors, the red lines are missile tracking systems and the yellow lines are laser area-defence weapons.
The Frigates would mainly be armed with CIWS, Gauss cannons and Light laser batteries (10-12cm). They would also sport decent spotting sensors for missiles.
The cruisers would be armed mainly with AMM but also with some medium size ASM capability.
The core ships could be any type of mission ships, in this instance to large CV.
Groups could obviously have fewer or more ships, this would depend on the situation and resources available.
My main though here would be to early detect any incoming missiles/fighters or beam heavy enemy ships. Once the threat has been identified my fast moving Frigates will fan out in that direction and extend my detection range and engage the threat with their area defence lasers and gauss cannons.
One question, will ship fire final defence fire even if they are not in the same TG at the moment but within range of the ship being targeted by missiles?
My guess is that they can't... any way I don't think this would matter that much though in the end for this tactic to work.
So, would this work or not?