fleet order

[Grogggy]

...and while I'm at it, I noticed quite a change in moving my heaviest ship around in the fleet order. I have an admittedly wretched little fleet of SOW2, S3, S3. If I put the SOW2 first, I got creamed. If I put it last, I get creamed. It seemed to do best in the middle.

Is this just a function of random results, or is having a little ship soften a fleet up just better? Any inside mechanics to this? (This is the game mechanics help section)

[Captain Jack]

Fleet order plays no role in fleet speed. The slowest ship however, affects the speed of all fleet.

Crew plays a high importance in ship speed.

We have a guide with all the details:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=76

[Grogggy]

Thanks but my question is to the order of battle of a fleet, and had nothing to do with speed.

Say you have one particularly good ship, is there any benefit to the slot it occupies in the fleet? I have already seen about week ships at the end, got that, but if you want to maximize damage to the opponent's fleet?

[Spastic]

It doesnt matter that much what order (excluding the last ship) but you could test a few ways and see which is best. I found that your ship order mostly depends on who your battling and what arrangement they have.

[SSR]

The reason people are using a cheap ship in their fleets is because you lose a level on it if you have a high number of total ships.

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    1 to 3 Ships: 0% Sink Chance (Ships never lose a level)
    4 to 10 Ships: 2% Sink chance
    11 to 25 Ships: 5% Sink Chance
    26 to 50 Ships: 25% Sink Chance
    51 to 100 Ships: 33% Sink Chance
    101 to 150 Ships: 50% Sink Chance
    151 to 200 Ships: 75% Sink Chance
    201 or more Ships: 100% Sink Chance (Ships always lose a level)

If you have a full fleet of Ship of the line you'll lose a level on the last one. It costs over 2 million... that's why you put a cutter or a sloop for last ship

[Grogggy]

I've done sooo many things wrong, I'm afraid I will only dream of a level 10 SOL, but thanks:)

[Grogggy]

I've done sooo many things wrong, I'm afraid I will only dream of a level 10 SOL, but thanks:)

[SSR]

Don't think that way. It's not very hard. I've even got two lvl 10 SoLs from tidal waves