Good afternoon all,

We have nine new videos, from two creators, in just the past seven days!

Firstly, in version 2.0 (or later) news.

Kourgath223 has posted the next part of his playthrough (part 51). MyTurn2Game has posted the next eight parts of his playthrough (parts 82 to 89).

So, for version 2.0 (or later) we now have 312 videos with a total running time of 11 days, 7 hours and 20 minutes.

Next, for earlier/unknown versions.

All videos were for version 2+ this time.

So, overall, we now have a total of 1680 videos with a total running time of 55 days, 2 hours and 18 minutes.

As usual, I have added the latest copies of the spreadsheets to the first post.


Andy

You missed an important detail:

Given sufficient capacity (see below), a construction element can fortify any other element from its maximum self-fortification level to the maximum fortification level in 90 days.

emphasis mine. Point being, the 90-day rule applies to elements, not formations, so all is WAI.

This means that the intention is not to be able to fortify an entire formation to maximum, but one element at a time. An element, if you don't know the definition in this case, is the set of units in a formation which share a class - so if I have a formation of 1,000 INF+PW and 250 INF+LB, there are two elements: the first element is 1,000 INF+PW, and the second element is 250 INF+LB, both of which are 5,000 tons in size.

The way your CON will interact with this formation is that it will dedicate 5,000 tons of its fortification capacity to each element, with 2,168 tons left over which will be dedicated to some other element(s) in some other formation. If the formation has a third element of 250 INF+LAV, that element will receive the remaining 2,168 tons but since it is 4,000 tons in size will only fortify at a bit over half the maximum rate.

This does mean in general that large amount of CON are mostly useful for fortifying permanent units. They can be useful for emplacing relatively hasty defenses (in, say, 90 or 180 days in anticipation of an enemy attack), because even fortifying a portion of your force can still make your defense more stubborn, but you won't be fortifying a massive army in 90 days unless it is mostly CON.

Also note that there is a sort based on maximum fortification, so you will see your STOs, INF, and other STA elements fortified first. If you don't care about your armored vehicles fortifying (perhaps you prefer them on Front Line Attack stance) then the time to achieve a practical fortification level for a mixed army is less as well.

2 August 1831, 04:11:20 Gamma Scorpii system, Search sensor activates, almost on top of the destroyer squadron Klas Horn, they are classified as 3xAbadan, Heavy Cruisers and 4xAshdod, Destroyers, then they fire taking out HMS Klas Horns, bridge and Engineering stations, the ship blows up in seconds, few reaches its life pods, at the same time HMS Decidee and HMS Eveille goes the same way, in less than 5 seconds, 3 human destroyers are destroyed, the Asdads have heavy laser armaments, a massive laser bellygun, delivering a 94 megaton hit as well as 3 twin heavy laser turrets, doing 42 megatons of damage, each, the poor human ships hit don't stand a chance...
A few seconds later the Ashdods fire at the 4 remaing human destroyers, their crews scrambling to their battle stations, few make there, in the next 10 seconds the remaing 4 Terran destroyers are blown apart by massiv Ashdod fire, they are armed with 13 twin light lasers, firing every 5 seconds...  HMS Tonnarre is hit hard by some 20 hits, blowing up, HMS Ville de Marseille gets a broadside of being hit badly by enemy fire but stioll alive, more or less fire from bow to stern, firing defiantly at the enemy, trying to cover the remaing destroyers escape, but next to Marseille HMS Arquebuse is blown in two halves then the engine detonates, at almost the same second HMS Arc is also hit, by a single beam, a huge explosion follows and the ship is gone. In a last effort the Ville de Marseille fires its last lasers, penetrating an enemy ship, to no appearant effect, then it detonates, HMS Dupleixe is destroyed as the last ship only some 15 seconds after the battle began...

Their "Black boxes" sends out the Omega code in al direction, after an hour its picked up be the Imperial Gate Network and sent on-wards, less then 8 hours after the Destroyer squadron, Klas Uggla, 2 jumps away gets the news and turns around, the scarce information on the enemy ships, but Commodore Theo Gustafsson believes he can get there in less than 9 days, his ship are slightly slower than the enemy, 110 km/s but having some 100000 km longer weapon ranges should keep them safe...

Good thought, but it did not reload after refueling was complete.  Mad Max has one 500 capacity commercial magazine with the following loadout:
100x Albacore 3x ASM (size 4)
100x Sundew 4 CM (size 1)

The Andenes ASM 2 loadout is as follows:

90x Albacore 3x ASM (size 4)
405x Albacore 4 ASM (size 4)

Maybe because the Mad Max has both ASM and AMM, or the Andenes has two types of missiles it won't load?  I'll have to experiment with that after this battle is over.

I didn't build enough ordinance factories to fully resupply with the new missiles, but the old ones are faster (12 damage) where the new ones are slower 16 damage, so it does make some sense to have both, but the micromanagement to load 45 missile tubes manually is annoying so after this fight I think I'm going to scrap the old 3x missiles. 

I also have non-combat tanker/supply ships and they have been able to refuel and resupply survey ships without issue.  But those tankers don't carry ordinance.

I haven't been able to reliably duplicate it yet but I'm also seeing some hangups with issuing a refuel/resupply/reload order when the ships have an odd magazine size (re: 97% full but can't load another missile).  The order seems to get stuck waiting for the reload to complete but it never does because it can't load another missile to get to 100%. 

I'm having a problem with combat colliers.  My battle fleet has destroyed several enemy and now that I've eliminated their fast interceptors I brought up my combat colliers to reload before engaging the main enemy fleet, but they won't load ammo.  Normally I attach them as a subfleet but I also tried moving it to the main fleet.  I also tried both reload and replace options.  The Mad Max class is a combination tanker/supply ship/collier and it appears to be refueling the fleet just fine but it won't load ordinance. 

See Battle Fleet in Camlann which is currently out of range of all known contacts.  Mad Max is a tanker, supply ship, and collier with one cargo shuttle bay, a refueling system, and ordinance transfer system.  It is loaded with 100x size 4 Albacore 3x ASM missiles and 100x size 1 Sundew AMM.  DD-3 has fired all 90 of her Albacore 3x but isn't reloading.  It does refuel the fleet.