Re: Fleet control
I think you can only give move orders to the leader of the task force, so you would have to have that selected. The others just move to stay in formation with the leader. As far as I'm aware, being an escort or picket has anything to do with movement, rather just determines the position in the formation. The way to override this behavior, and what I find works best anyway, is to set the strategy the task force uses to break formation immediately - see strategy settings under empire options. You might need to do this for the strategy the ship designs are set to as well, but from what I've seen the task force strategies override the ship ones. There might be a break formation button or something similar in the tactical combat you can use too. If you do this, by default the ships move to try and keep the range you set in the strategy from their target.
The fleet formation is still handy though as it gives you some control over the starting positions of the ships.
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