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Sorry to insist, but any thoughts on this Luthier?
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Lancelot_ecv56,
You said
"I have a question about how fleets will be handled on PF with the FMB. One problem we have with ships on FB, its that you have to place each ship individually when building a mission, and you can't set and objective of sinking 50% transports of a fleet with four transports, or something similar. You have to set each ship and objective, and if you use "primary objective", only take one ship to not be sinked for having mission failure."
You can select a group of ships as a primary target with an objective to sink 25, 50, 75 or 100% of them. I've done this in my IL-2T torpedo campaign (coming soon - in what else, 2 weeks). Use destroy ground as the target. Place all of the ships inside the target circle and keep them there for the duration of the timeout period.
Here is how I did this in my campaign:
1) I placed the ships at the edge of the circle.
2) I used the waypoint time feature to have the ships sit at 0km/hour until a minute or two before the attacking planes should arrive.
3) I then have the ships travel to the far edge of the target circle and then change course so they stay inside the circle.
4) If the timeout for the destroy ground object is 30 minutes, I keep them inside for the full 30 minutes.
The target circle, at its largest setting, is approximately 6km in diameter. With care, you can get a small number of ships to cruise around inside this circle and still have the appearance of a natural look to their movement. I suggest you have the ships trace out a square or pentagon shape inside the circle. Each point should be just inside the border.
I like the idea that Lancelot_ecv56 had with the small, medium and large fleets. I suggested something similar a few months ago. My idea was that you could select the specific ships that would go into the convoy.
Zeus-cat
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Thanks Zeus, i once tryed something similar, but without succes because the target even started outside the circle, or started inside but were distroyed outside of it, so i thought it couldn't work.
I will try what you say, thanks a lot.
Post here once you finnsh your IL-2T campaign, sounds interesting. 
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