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Old October 1st, 2004, 05:59 PM
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Default Re: Fleet Strategy For Dummies?

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I'll try to give a few hints. The 3 most basic things are:

1) Formations are useless.
Formations are not useless. Staying in formation is indeed useless, but the formations are useful for determining starting locations for your ships. When you have lots of ships (eg: 80), you generally want a formation that keeps them bunched together, rather than spread out. Phalanx comes to mind.

Check out Ultimate Strategies Mod, which has a lot of custom strategies and formations. You can use the strategies in stock games by copying DefaultStrategies.txt from the USM\Data folder into the stock Data folder. This will not affect multiplayer savegames in any way. Make sure to create a backup copy of the stock DefaultStrategies.txt file in case you want to save it. Changing the extension from "txt" to "bak" is a good method.
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Old October 1st, 2004, 07:22 PM
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When you have lots of ships (eg: 80), you generally want a formation that keeps them bunched together, rather than spread out. Phalanx comes to mind.
Well I use wall .
But saying that this is useful is like saying AOL CDs are useful because you can use them as coasters...
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Frizbee's, target practice and there's a site somewhere with funny stuff...
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You can also make them into Christmas tree ornaments.
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