Fleet position

[Evil_Duckie]

Which brings on another question. When adding ships to a fleet, *sometimes* (I have no hard evidence to support this though) the most recently added ship becomes the leader, but sometimes not. Any rules behind this?

[Slick]

No rules that I have ever seen. Obviously if it is a 1-ship fleet, that ship is the leader. When adding multiple ships and not selecting a leader manually, which ship is arbitrarily chosen? I dunno. I've seen my best attack ship in the fleet get chosen sometimes and I've also seen a support ship get chosen at other times.

I have also seen the leader spontaneously change from the one I manually selected when adding ships to a fleet at some later point after fleet creation.

So many things out there to test...

[Fyron]

NullAshton said:
Unarmed ships can be protected, Fyron, all you have to do is turn off that type of ship in the strategy that says 'break formation'...

From everything I have seen, ships with no weapons are never placed in formations, regardless of the strategy settings. In small fleet combats, they tend to be placed centrally located behind the fleet of warships, but in larger combats, anything goes.