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[jedi mike]

Hey I'm not sure but i remember from somewhere they said u could pick witch ships come into battle first, am i just missing something is their a way to do this, because if i have a fleet of 8 SD and 15 tartans many times when my fleets will come out and only 1 SD is present and the rest are tartans, anyone know about this?

[Throxx]

Nope, you have absolutely no control over the initial order of battle.  You can of course choose which reinforcements enter.

[Cobra848]

Well if I am going to face a small enemy fleet, like one or two circles, I just pick my 25 or 20 pop. that I need.  I know it's no big deal for one or two disk but it's something.

 

I think it would be better if they only choose five or ten of your pop cap and let you choose the rest.  Kind of like land battles where they start you off with one unit.

[Garbageben]

OK I think I remember.  You know on the planet screen where you have the three fleet boxes at the top and then ground slots toward the middle?  Well I think when you go into battle it takes all the units it can (starting upper left and going right).  So before you send a fleet set ships in an order (again from right to left) so that the first ones looked at are the ones you wanted to start the battle with.  Again I'm not totally sure, but could you try it?  I'm sorry if I am wrong.

[Davynelord_pff]

I tried that one myself and I'm almost certain it didn't work.  I recall having 2 mon cals, 4 corvettes, a fleet commander, 4 y-wings, 2 assault frigates, 2 neb-b's, 10 x-wings, 1 marauder in that exact order in the first fleet screen  and when I went into the battle, all the x-wings made it in but mon cals and 2 corvettes didn't make it into the battle and were in the reinforcements list.   

 

So I'm not sure exactly how the units are picked, but yes there was a post in an interview on the Lucas forums where someone asked if we could organize the units we want to enter the battle and they said yes we could, but I guess they failed to put that feature in.  Also, once the battle alert sounds, you can't move units around either to my knowledge.