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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
The idea of having "ship packs" is a good one, and would save mission builders a lot of time since the FMB could be loaded with preset historical packs like "1942 Western Allied Convoy" or "Midway, June 4, Japanese Carrier Task Force".
The same idea could be applied to aircraft and ground vehicles as well, with formations such as "1944 U.S. Heavy Bomber Group Box Formation" or "1942 Soviet T-34 Tank Formation"
If this is implemented, another nice feature might be for the FMB to allow mission builders to create and save custom formations. That would allow TD to just include a few generic formations (e.g., "German destroyers line abreast") and let the fans create actual historical formations.
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The "fun" of this starts when your formations need to turn. Without collision avoidance you will need a preprogrammed turning pattern for each formation. For player-created formations, player would need to create a pattern, too. There would be more than one mission designer willing to create and test such formation patterns I assume, so if created make them user-accessible, and let us experiment with it.