Fleet management

[acorn cop]

Hey

So I am really new at this game and I was wondering how to create fleets put or remove ships from fleets I couldn't figure it out.

Also can I make only 1 of my ships retreat if it is about to get destroyed ? if not what is the benefit of making fleets instead using everyship 1 by 1 and retreat them when they get damaged alot?

Thanks so much if you can answer these few questions guys.

[Elementus]

in the top left there's a drop down menu that has an option called fleet manager, this is where you can create templates for your fleets. No you can't make a single ship from a fleet retreat. You need fleets because enemies will use fleets and if you send ships 1 by 1 they will all get instantly destroyed

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Originally posted by a good old rub:

So I am really new at this game and I was wondering how to create fleets put or remove ships from fleets I couldn't figure it out.

To remove ships from a fleet, select the fleet and click the "Transfer Ships" button (middle icon below the box with the text "Home Base", looks like a curved arrow from the front right of a ship). Then click on each ship or type of ship you want moved to a new fleet.

To create a fleet either select a group of ships &/or fleets and click the "Merge" button (top-leftmost button in the fleet window, looks like a ship with another partial ship to the right of it), or go to the Fleet Manager (open the "More" menu, right of the tech menu, then click "Fleet Manager" at the bottom of the menu) to create a fleet from scratch. Once in Fleet Manager you click "Create New", then click each type of ship that you want to add to the fleet (in the right panel), then increment the count (middle panel) of each ship type until the desired number is reached, and finally click the "Reinforce" button (leftmost button to the right and below the text "New Fleet", looks like two counterpointing diagonal arrows to the front left of a ship) to actually build the ships (and thus the fleet).

Originally posted by a good old rub:

Also can I make only 1 of my ships retreat if it is about to get destroyed ?

The game handles this automatically. Ships that are nearly destroyed will attempt to withdraw themselves. After the battle, the winner's ships will return to the fleet, and the loser's ships will return to their base after a period of being missing. Ships that fail to withdraw are destroyed.

Originally posted by a good old rub:

if not what is the benefit of making fleets instead using everyship 1 by 1 and retreat them when they get damaged alot?

If you wanted to try to micromanage it this way you could, but I'm not sure the results would be any better than letting it happen automatically. Manually retreating triggers a missing period even if you win the fight, meaning your "fleet" of fleets will get split up. Also, ships that you retreat manually have a chance to be lost during emergency FTL, even if they were not on the verge of desctruction, so you might end up actually increasing your losses.