Question on multiple fleets in battle and planet invasion and ranged attacks

[gmsh1964]

I did not see this addressed by Youtubers and I have not tried these yet.

1) If you attack an enemy fleet with 2 of your adjacent fleets, does that help?

2) Same question but planets sieges. If you have two fleets, does not help?

3) How does it work when a planet you want to siege has defenders in orbit. Does the planet help the defending fleet? Do you defeat that fleet, then seige the planet? Can one fleet attack the orbiting defenders and the other Siege the planet? I am really lost on the Siege process.

4) If you are going to attack an enemy fleet but prior to engaging, you fire missiles and lasers at them from a distance, does that make your following attack weaker? How does that all work? In summary, should you always pre-fire with ranged missiles and lasers prior to engaging the enemy?

Thank you.

[z|A|bik2]

Hello!

1) You cannot attack with 2 fleets. But you can research logistics and make those 2 fleets a single bigger fleet

2) You can only besiege planets with 1 fleet. Your second fleet can protect your siege fleet from possible attacks

3) You have to kill defending ships first. So you just have a battle with the defending fleet, and then besiege the planet

4) No, your following attack will be a normal engagement. So firing long range weapons is always a good idea. Also, your ships will autofire on enemies with long range, if they enter into your firing range.

Hope this helps! :D

[gmsh1964]

Wonderful and thank you.

[Rotlung]

Resurrecting this month-old thread because I found myself in this conundrum: needing a nearly dedicated siege fleet to siege a planet (in order to have enough siege rating to even start the siege). I had a second fleet sharing the same tile, expecting them to protect the siege fleet, but somehow the enemy was able to attack my siege fleet directly.

So how does this work? When you attack a tile with multiple fleets, how does the game prioritise which fleet gets attacked? Is it affected by my siege fleet containing one armed ship?

[Illauna]

You need to include escorts into the fleet. You can't "cover" the tile to prevent them from being attacked on the same tile.

I put together a guide for the combat system. There is a section devoted to invasion.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3052225397

[Rotlung]

Originally posted by Illauna:

You need to include escorts into the fleet. You can't "cover" the tile to prevent them from being attacked on the same tile.

I put together a guide for the combat system. There is a section devoted to invasion.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3052225397

Thanks for the guide! It's very comprehensive.