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Hi all. I need advice from more experienced players for SW3. I forgot to put SW3 in title of topic.

At the moment I got my hero, Ternie and Gray guy. I gave my guy the tactician perk and gave Ternie the defense perk (I am not sure what is the name - the one where is says it gives 30% bonus to avoid attacks for the team). I decided to use Gray as lone wolf (gave him that perk). I took for gray heavy weapons spec and for Ternie Lasers spec.

At the moment I got them set up like this. Hero and Ternie are flying the Templar class 3 ships (that have 4 light+1 heavy slots), and Gray in Tiger (lvl 3 2 heavy +3 system) and trying to get enough xp to put him an a class 4 one I got (3 heavy +2 system).

My hero's ship has the extra fire rate system (35%) for guns and bonus shields, while Ternie has repair 10/s HP and 30 active missile defense one.

Now my combat tactics are as follows. I put my Hero as leader of the group and Ternie as Missile defense while Gray goes alone. Once we close to gun range (and enemy has fired all their missiles) I change Ternie to Attack or Defense (and change to repair when needed).

Is this OK? As others I noticed wingmen act strangely and attack less.
So to make my battles as risk free as possible after the first Missiles Ternie stops, should I:
1) Remove her from Group and have 3 pilots all on their own. I can easily group them again if anyone needs missile defense or repair. Or are the Tactician and that defense perk good enough to keep them in the group?
2) Keep her in group as Defense.
3) Keep her in group as Attack.

I mostly kill pirates at the moment and have no problems against smaller groups but once 1-2 Pirate Captains (with their groups or 3-4 ships) show up sometimes one of my pilots tend to lose the ship (which I am trying to avoid) often even with repair on or before they can go back to hangar.