hello so been doing more or less fine up until now, but start playing today and wow. so after taking out 4 pirate stations that popped up in my area around my colonies back to back i try and take out the luddic camp that is down the road that has been plaguing me. np, so i take out a fleet thats larger then what i was using to take out the pirate stations and get into my first battle against....a handful of modified colossus and a modified tanker. well after losing all my frigs to them (wtf?) and finding the location station i find it surround by 3 more fleets of modified nobodies but who wont leave the radius of the station no matter what i do and when i get close to them i notice that my ships all start losing battle readiness out of the blue in large numbers. then i finally just load it and say screw it and rush right at them and decide to try and take on the fleet and the station at the same time?
now one of my commanders wont engage and just sits at the starting point. went afk and came back and hes still just sitting there. done it dozens of times now and eventually he will kinda of meander toward them sometimes but fires a shot or two and PULLS BACK until hes in the corner. this is a 'steady' commander btw. not timid not anything else, steady.
What do i do about any of this?