Ship Combat

Ship Combat

Ship Combat takes place via the Combat Assignment screen or the F6 individual unit combat tab.

Setup Fire Control

Here you select the fire control you wish to use against an enemy, each fire control can be differently ranged depending on what specialization the weapons it is supposed to have are.

Assign Weapons to Selected Fire Control

Here you choose the weapons on a ship to assign to the fire control. On a large ship made for killing other ships this may be 10 or more.

There is no limit to how many weapons you can link to a fire control, but for point defense usually you want to keep a bunch of different fire controls for targetting seperately.

Assign ECCM

Here is where you Assign an ECCM to a fire control.

What does ECCM do? It makes it easier for the fire control to lock on and target an incoming ship with ECM of course!

Change Point Defense Mode

Here you will see the options

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Area Defense- defends an area around the fleet with weapons that are long ranged.

Final Fire- fires at incoming ships/missiles at point blank range for large accuracy bonus.

Final Fire(self)- fires at incoming ships/missiles for the single ship selected only.

Copy Assignments

Copy's Assignments of weapons and fire control to other ships , task groups or the whole empire for this type of ship.

Copy Targets

Copy's Targets of Fire Control to other ships, fleets or the empire.

Fleet Combat

Also takes place in the Combat Assignment screen.