Questions, part 4

[capnq]

select the fleet, and press 'f' to change fleet strategy.

Correction: "F" is for changing the composition of the fleet (adding or removing ships).

Changing the fleet's formation and/or strategy is "H" (or the chess piece icon).

You can also change the fleet leader by clicking the fleet, then the new leader.

[Silent Sorrow]

Thanks again to everyone for the replies. Now about this "one shot" engine- or shield regenerator-killer issue, I think I'm still not understanding it properly. Do you mean to say that if you fire an engine killer, its damage bypasses shields and armour and strikes against an individual engine component? Or does the shields and armour of the target have to be down first?

Originally posted by oleg:
As to shield depleters/disruptors:
The depletors (the one that decrease shield strength) work as normal weapons: their damage stacks. However, disrupters (the one that kills shield generators, IIRC) may be governed by "special weapons" rules, like engine destroyers: damage does not stack, component must be destroyed in one shot. Try to use biggers ships (light cruisers + )with large+ mounts.

[Grandpa Kim]

Originally posted by Silent Sorrow:
...fire an engine killer, its damage bypasses shields and armour and strikes against an individual engine component...

Yep, this is exactly right. You can see why a change was wanted: with one accurate shot at a base ship, it is dead in the water and unable to fire its weapons. You have just won the battle.

Kim