[2021] Fleet Formation Diagrams (MS Paint Edition)

As some of you may know, I sometimes make simple MS Paint diagrams to teach mechanics and tactics. With the recent addition of fleet formations I have more fodder for my educational ‘art’ skills.

Here’s a look at the ‘basic’ fleet formations and the utility they may offer.

Basic Fleet Formations1085×635 25.8 KB

Here’s an explanation of how the relative fleet warp mobility works.

relative warps1306×801 17.5 KB

And here’s a description of what I expect to see alliances set up in their systems soon for home defense fleets (can also be pretty easily created anywhere if you just have about 30 seconds of setup time).

The Virus Formation1085×635 20.3 KB

It’s still early in the theorycrafting days for this so I fully expect to see clever and unexpected tactics emerge yet for me to make new ms paint drawings of.

All of my MS Paint images can be found here.