Hello forum,
Been playing some SS+ in anticipation of the update, and I've been having some trouble. If you want to retreat a fleet from a standard battle that includes cruisers, what tactics or sequence of commands do you use to try and get them out alive?
For context:
Ran into a superior Hegemony force with a hybrid fleet of Blackrock and SCY. My plan was to deploy all forces, inflict some casualties on the faster enemy forces, then retreat and re-engage. I attempted to tell all forces to Defend a point towards the bottom of the map... and the cruisers refused to go that direction. They were locked in combat, but still. An Erymanthian Boar was actually moving northwest away from the point, and eventually got surrounded and destroyed.
A straight-up retreat command would result in the ship turning its back and then getting destroyed anyway. What's some way to prevent things like that?