Naval Micro

[highlink55]

I'm just starting to get the hang of ranked matches and got my rank up to 1000(only thing holding me back is dealing with turtles on mass heavy 10x10 maps) but I recently discovered I have no idea how to handle naval battles. I mostly play Cybran with some UEF and I notice all of my ships, especially shield and stealth boats seperate and spread themselves very thin causing me to lose every naval battle. Do I just have to micro individual ships into a large clump before hand or is there some trick I am missing? While we are at it, what is the preferred mix of cruisers/destroyers/subs if you know beforehand you will be fighting another navy? Thanks a bunch.

[ColonelSheppard]

I'm just starting to get the hang of ranked matches and got my rank up to 1000(only thing holding me back is dealing with turtles on mass heavy 10x10 maps) but I recently discovered I have no idea how to handle naval battles. I mostly play Cybran with some UEF and I notice all of my ships, especially shield and stealth boats seperate and spread themselves very thin causing me to lose every naval battle. Do I just have to micro individual ships into a large clump before hand or is there some trick I am missing? While we are at it, what is the preferred mix of cruisers/destroyers/subs if you know beforehand you will be fighting another navy? Thanks a bunch.

- give the important ships like stealth boat numbers (crtl + number) and micro them idividual if they run out of the formation
- Micro at sea comes down to dodging and kiting just like on land: easy circling movements for doging, kiting for Cybran with stealth, using shield regen by perfoming many small atacks as UEF
- as long as you are not cyban buid no cruisers as long as you do:
have air superiority problems
not want to do land atacks

[highlink55]

Thanks Shep, you are awesome for helping everyone. I made a custom game and played with a few things, I made a couple discoveries that I thought I'd share with anyone else looking for advice, though do be aware this is coming from a newbie and I have yet to put any of it into practice.

1. Always select battleships and other large T3 ships separately, even one will ruin an entire fleet's formation if given a move order as a group.
2. Never tell ships to assist other ships, this causes them the spread to extreme degrees(my fleet of ~25 covered most of Seton's bay)
3. Splitting your fleet into 2 num groups will help condense it's firepower a lot but this can sometimes lead to pathfinding issues when trying to quickly move backwards

[ColonelSheppard]

you know about the formation move (holding right mouse key+moving mouse)?