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ORIGINAL: actrade Is there a way to have a TF that includes ships with less endurance (like escorts) refuel just the escort? Right now, as a workaround I simply have the escort form a new task force (which by default is set to full refuel), then I go back to the original TF and pick the escort back up. I realize I could set the TF as minimal refuel, but would the larger ships take on any fuel, or would just the ships with lower endurance refuel? Obviously, I don't want ships that don't need fuel to take ANY fuel on, but I want to make sure my escorts have enough to return to their home port. Thanks! So to summarize, so I understand this quickly, you cannot refuel JUST the lower endurance ships in a task force by themselves, right? If you try to refuel them in port or at sea via an oiler, ALL ships will take on fuel, even if they aren't technically low? Is his method of temporarily disbanding the escorts to refuel the best way to ensure only they receive the fuel? When ships refuel at sea, they ignore the settings for the amount of fuel (minimum, tactical, full) and will take as much fuel as they can, only restricted by the amount the donor ships are able to part with. So if you Refuel At Sea for the whole TF, the fuel will be redistributed among the whole TF. If you want to refuel just the smallest ships, create a new TF with just them in it, have that TF Refuel At Sea, then transfer the ships back to the original TF. But really - that is not even necessary. The TF will automatically give the shortest range ships additional fuel to get to destination when they are critically short. Doing it by player intervention is only necessary when you want to control where the TF is when the refueling is done (e.g. so the AI doesn't do that for you within range of an enemy base) which you could scoot by with full ops points for movement).
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