A Fleet of One

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I just had an unexpected result in a PBW game. I was trying to temporarily override a couple individual ships' Default Strategy by putting each ship in a fleet by itself. When these ships entered combat, they followed the fleet strategy for the first round, then reverted to their original ship strategy. (This was particularly obvious because the fleet was set to not fire on planets, but the individual ships did anyway.) This behavior seems to contradict the FAQ:

2.10.2 Ships do retain original strategies after being retrofitted or captured - you can overcome this by making a 1-ship fleet and giving it new fleet orders.

(BTW, these were my own designs, not captured ships.)

Has anybody else run into this? There's a note later in the FAQ saying that the changelog for an upcoming patch implied changes to the way strategy worked, but there's no further mention of what (or when) the change was.