[AP&Bonuspack] TM (small carrier) to protect me automatically

[dwcalex]

hi.

is it possible to setup a tm to follow me around and protect me and automatically launch fighters and even drones to protect me and also to protect the tm itsself. after the fight fighters and drones should redock.

a small "how to" would be nice
if possible i would keep the game vanilla.

[Catra]

tell the tm to protect you
tell the fighters to either protect the tm or kill closest target of (and choose the tm).

[dwcalex]

if i do that, the fighters undock immediatly and stay undocked

[RandomBandit]

Heh, When I start new games I work myself into a TM as a mobile base. If you put it in your top right[in my case as left is target] window you can click it and fly it remotely if it is in system. I used to fight in a M3 and have the TM remotely fire missiles from far off as support.

[bufi]

if i do that, the fighters undock immediatly and stay undocked

Set to fighters HomeBase as TM ship. Will be new options in fighter commands

'Attack, nad land' or 'Destroy all ships, and land' or something to this way...


R.

[dwcalex]

yeah but you would have to issue this to every fighter manually

i created a wing now with both fighters in it and set the whole wing to my wingmen. that way i can issue the tm to follow and protect me and if needed i can issue the wing to protect me too via shift-7.
drawback is that i have to order the wing to dock manually after a fight.

[Catra]

heh....cant believe ego broke / took out that feature.

try this:

take em outta the wing (should do this anyway, wings are retarded broke)
tell the TM to stop what its doing
tell the fighters to protect / attack closest target of the TM

if they autodock, it means youll just have to order around the TM manually.

[Tormbo]

Fleet management works wonders as well. Just make the TM fleet leader and assign your fighters to the TM fleet. Might be wise to give them the TM as homebase as well, just to be sure.