Newbie Q: ship placement in combat?

[JLS]

Dome Formation also is very effective, if not missile latent

[Vezzra]

Originally posted by oleg:
Ahh, I see You used "wall" formation but since you come from the side, your waal is turned by 90 degrees.

Strange... when I played non-simultaneous games, this always worked properly. When I attacked from the side, the wall went top-bottom, with the ships facing left or right. When I attacked diagonal, the formation was crunched into the respective corner, IIRC.

One thing I didn't pay attention to, but came to my mind today: Obviously my ships moved and fired first, seems as if the game treated them as defenders. No idea why. My ships moved into the sector, so they should have been the attackers. No enemy ship entered before battle occcured, only afterwards a single ship entered, and was destroyed in the second battle.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Vezzra:
...Strange... when I played non-simultaneous games, this always worked properly. When I attacked from the side, the wall went top-bottom, with the ships facing left or right. When I attacked diagonal, the formation was crunched into the respective corner, IIRC.

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It is still a mystery to me how particular formation turns up in the battle depending of the angle of approach and the order of fleet movements.

Better drop it as another SEIV mystery but keep it in mind when selecting next fleet formation

[ January 23, 2004, 14:56: Message edited by: oleg ]

[Maerlyn]

something very strange happened to me in a PBW game recently. usually if you fly trough an enemy occupied warpgate his fleet will be gathered around the warpgate (as will yours) and he will have first strike. this is very strong, defense wise.

but recently I entered a warpgate which was defended by three enemy races. I started the combat in the middle of the map (close to the warpgate) but ALL three of them started the combat in different corners. although they still had the first move.

now since their fleet was split up in three parts it was an easy win for me.

any ideas why they werent placed at the center?

[Wardad]

Maerlyn,
I had the same experience defending a warp point with a partner.
I think U could really mess up an ally by leaving one SAT at the warp point.

Vezzra,
Sometimes it is hard to tell who will be the defender. I am sure vetern players like Fyron and GEO could help you.

Maybe the enemy had a fleet pursuing yours? Or a ship arriving late?

[Vezzra]

Originally posted by Wardad:
Maybe the enemy had a fleet pursuing yours? Or a ship arriving late?

Yep, a ship arriving late, however, this ship arrived *after* the first combat, triggering a second combat. In this second combat I was defender of course, but I shouldn't have been in the first one.

Had a few other combats till then, and everything was normal. No idea what the problem with this particular combat was...