I'm wondering if what I'm doing is working. Basically, I have my capital ships (progenitor and radiance for obvious reasons
) hot keyed to 1 and 2, then my support cruisers hot keyed to 3. Outside of that, I have all my combat craft (illums, crusaders, disciples for AM), not hot keyed. I have all of these in a fleet together, using the fleet to move/target and the hot keys to micro abilities. I find that as a fleet, the formation/movement for these works well enough.
That's not the issue here though. I have my flak grouped as another fleet, set engagement range for hold, then tell them to follow my radiance. This tends to put them in the same layer as the disciples (behind radiance/HCs, in front of illums/guardians) when everything moves, and they stay put.
Now, what I'm unsure about is the flaks effectiveness here. They're central enough to cover the entire group (unless the radiance gets bomber spammed), and they maintain that position, but I wonder if having them set to follow compromises their firepower at all. I remember reading somewhere that when a ship moves, its DPS is reduced (accuracy), so is having them on follow orders like having them constantly moving (I find most RTS' act like this if you give follow orders... they ignore targets more often than not), or is the follow order more like a guard order, where they move to position next to the guarded target and then hold and fire at full effectiveness?
I guess the individual grouping is not really that important, but that the flak is fleeted separately, and on follow orders on a central unit.
