Posted by: sloanjh
« on: March 06, 2012, 08:48:19 AM »So the staff level commander (Operations?) needs to be a higher rank then the fleet/ship level commander to be most effective in training? WTH did aurora pick a lieutenant (Entry grade) commander? What a pain. 10 years into this particular game and all my battle fleets are still at 3-4% TF because I couldn't figure out the proper combination and the auto assign was giving me the cold shoulder.No. The commanding admiral needs to outrank his subordinates. So all 6 staff slots in the TF need to be occupied by commanders at least one level lower than the TF overall commander.
I've never paid much attention to the TG commander ranks (probably because I never had them outrank the TF commander), but I assume TheDeadlyShoe is correct about the TG (he mis-typed TF here) commander needing to be lower rank than the TF commander. (And just to be clear, "Task Group" is a bunch of ships that you can give orders to go somewhere to. "Task Force" is an organizational structure with a commander and staff officers.
John