And I got another question:
When there are multiple fleets in one system, does each of them fight for itself or can they act as a combined fleet with shared hitpoints/damage?
If the attacker can choose which of the defending fleets he wants to attack in a 3vs3 Situation one fleet might be nuked off the map in one turn (making such engagements very risky). This would be unrealistic if the defending fleets have similar orders.
Fleets fight independently so it is indeed possible to focus fire on a single fleet to decimate it.
Rest assure however that I am not so cruel to one turn kill player fleets.
Torchwood asked what kind of ship types/names are in each fleet and I suppose it can't hurt to give you guys a list of names here.
Sol Force:Fighters:
2nd Gen
- Light: Dragonfly
- Medium: Ray IIJS
- Heavy: Tyrfing
3rd Gen
- Light: Kaze-B
- Medium: Ray III, Ray IIIE
- Heavy: Caliburn
4th Gen
- Light: Kaze II
- Medium: Ray IV
- Heavy: Clarent
Capital ships:
- Light: Skirmisher
- Medium: Challenger
- Heavy: Crusader
- Carrier: Champion
Delest Defense:Fighters:
2nd Gen
- Light: Cheburashka
- Medium: Zhuravlik
- Heavy: Shilo
3rd Gen
- Light: Kaze-H, Spirt-Voz
- Medium: Terminator, Ray IIIW
- Heavy: Sodesuka
4th Gen
- Light: Lastochka
- Medium: Berkut
- Heavy: -
Capital ships:
- Light: -
- Medium: Grazhdanin
- Heavy: Volya
Commonwealth Royal Fleet:2nd Gen
- Light: Dragonfly
- Medium: Ray IIJS
- Heavy: Tyrfing
3rd Gen
- Light: Kaze-Page
- Medium: Esquire, Ray IIIM3v
- Heavy: Excalibur
4th Gen
- Light: Hospitaler
- Medium: Templar
- Heavy: -
Capital ships:
- Light: Cavalier
- Medium: Duke
- Heavy/Carrier: Lord, Champion
UGC Regulars:2nd Gen
- Light: Dragonfly
- Medium: Firefly
- Heavy: -
3rd Gen
- Light: Kaze-B, Cheetah
- Medium: Ray III, Leopard
- Heavy: Caliburn, Tiger
4th Gen
- Light: Sparrow
- Medium: Hawk
- Heavy: Eagle
Capital ships:
- Light: -
- Medium/Carrier: Rhino
- Heavy/Carrier: Elephant
League Star ForcesUses a mix of ships from all factions.
The SF, UGC and CRF each have a share of Hazel bombers in storage. While 'only 2nd gen', Hazel's are considered strategic bombers because of the bloody large amount of secondaries they carry. They didn't stopped producing bombers because they were ineffective but because of a set of agreed upon rules for the proxy wars that each faction has been involved in.
Bet the higher ups are going to regret that!
Anyway bombers are not a factor in this game for the forseeable future.
A large number of these are not yet actually ingame and probably won't be in the nearby future either. I'll apologize in advance to the admirals of the DD fleets that their fleet's combat footage may seem rather sparse compared to the others.