Defense Ship

The defense ship is a very useful piece of addition to any fleet.

It extends its shields to protect smaller ships, such as fighters, bombers, and heavy bombers.

When you are attacking, you do not need to enter a number into the defense ship field; it will act automatically, even if that unit is in another fleet in orbit of the same astro.

Example: you have 2 fleets on an astro, 1 of which has 10 defense ships. An enemy player lands and attacks the second fleet, which is composed by 100 fighters only. The shield distribution will be:

total of defense ships * it shields / total of small ships * hangar space needed

10 * 30 / 100 * 1

300 / 100 = 3

However, defense ships cannot extend the shields to cover more than 2 shield per ship.

in resume, your Fighters would fight as 4/4 (2) [ attack/defense (shield) ].