So, having some shoddy luck figuring out how naval combat operates in this game.
1. Do you have to assign fire controls to every individual ship in a fleet? I would've figured it would make a lot more sense to be able to give mass orders, in case I wanted to, you know, set up identical point defense for each one.
2. Is there something to point defense systems I'm missing? I've tried to use the Combat Overview screen to set my ...
god damnit I just realized you have to set weapons to the fire controls for the fire controls to do anything with them
and oh, there's copy assigned orders and copy targets
thanks for your help guys
Pictured above: my arse getting kicked in as I attempt to flee the system. I discovered a decently sized fleet not too far into the alpha centauri system, however, with my dumb beam ships only topping out at 2000 km/s I ditched the efforts in attacking the 6000 km/s ships
Even with (I think) appropriately assigning the fire controls my ships didn't seem to put up much of a fight at all against the incoming missiles. I did only have Twin 12cm C4 Near Ultraviolet Laser Turrets for point defense, so would I be correct in assuming that the poor defense was due to their tracking speed only going up to 10,000 km/s, while their missiles were traveling at 30,000 km/s? In the attempts one of the poor ships made it did say it had a 33% chance of hitting, so that seems about right. I really want to show these dudes what's what.