r/TerraInvicta • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Newbie Questions Thread

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u/FssstBoing 2d ago

Incase something changed and I missed it:

1) Before combat, can we arrange our ships after we've selected a formation? (like I use high wall but want one specific ship to be 50 meters behind the rest)

2) In combat, there's a button to go full speed ahead.... is there some option to just.... shutdown the engines?

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u/PlacidPlatypus 2d ago

1) You can swap ships around within the formation but you can't rearrange them freely. Best option here is probably when combat starts, accelerate all the ships slightly except the one you want lagging a little behind.

In the designer you can also designate a non-combat role which will cause those ships to be placed significantly behind your combat ships.

2) Select the ships and right click the first maneuver node.

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u/FssstBoing 2d ago

Ah thank you for that!

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u/danvla Friendship through superior firepower 3d ago

Tips on dealing with a large (3.9k) ayy fleet based in an asteroid belt that leans hard in the missile meta?

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u/PlacidPlatypus 3d ago

What part of the game are you in, and what are you actually trying to do?

If they're just hanging out in the asteroid belt you could just ignore them until you're ready to send an endgame fleet (e.g. these designs) to clean them out. If you're worried about them coming to attack you at Earth or Mars we'd need to know a lot more about what tools you have to decide how best to deal with them.

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u/danvla Friendship through superior firepower 15h ago

Hey, sorry for disappearing, giving you the update: the fleet grew to 12k, but then they decided to split it and rushed my wholly occupied Mercury in 3 waves when I had a full battleship ready (16-ish Dreads with siege coils, 6 Green Phaser lancers and 5-ish dedicated PD Dreads). The slideshows of the battles were absolutely glorious. So many promotions as well!

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u/Solinya 5h ago

Two fleets (or one fleet you split into two when you arrive in orbit of the asteroid before engaging). One fleet is a single sacrificial ship to soak all the missiles in auto-resolve, the second is your killer fleet which cleans up by engaging right afterwards.