Guide:Combat Basics
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This guide is designed to walk you through the basics of creating a fleet of military ships and then using plan attack to shoot something. It also covers the different types of military ships and which types work best against which other types.
How to Set Up a Fleet
Before you can make use of any military ships, you will need to make a fleet for them to fly in. At first, you will only be able to create a fleet for a 10 ship slots, but you can increase this to control a 30 slot fleet by researching Fleet Management for 80 Isolinear Chips taking 15 ticks. To control an 80 slot fleet (the largest possible) you will have to research that, plus Adv. Fleet Management for 190 Isolinear Chips taking 20 cycles. I suggest you don't worry about this until you build enough ships to reach each limit else it is a waste of resources.
Now to create a fleet you need to look at your Ship List. Rather than look at the simple details, you need to see the advanced list. There should be an option to do this towards the bottom of your list. Look for the drop down list shown in the image below!
Now you are looking at the advanced list of your ships, you will see that at the bottom you have the option of "Fleet Overview". Here you can create a new fleet. Choose a name (no-one can see this except yourself) and create it. You must now select every ship you want to put into this fleet using the checkboxes on the right and then go to "Fleet Management" which is near the Fleet Overview option, select which fleet you want to add them to and then select the option "Join Fleet". You should see confirmation of the ships joining the fleet.
Now go to the ship you want to lead that fleet and you have an option "Direct Commands To ". Change this to the fleet you want it to command. Now when you make an action with that ship the rest of the fleet will copy. A fleet order could be raising shields, beaming goods, fueling the Warp Core, de/activating weapons, disabling the Warp Core, changing alert condition, fleet message etc. Note fleet orders do not include changing ship names.
