haha was trying to find some direction in this video but it seems i am not the only one struggling with this. BAR rly is not easy on newbies. The normal AI is exploiting weaknesses very good in the offensive

@Dominator10 A important naval units that you are really missing out on is the Herring. The Herring is the cortex T1 missile boat, its pretty much a missile truck on water, good for AA and a bit of extra damage, but most importantly in your case it has mobile radar and sonar. It also has more LOS than other ships meaning that your destroyers will be more accurate when firing at max range. Like one of the major reasons you keep losing engagements here is that you keep getting surrounded and jumped is because your opponents have mobile radar (Arm Skater) to track your fleet while your ships are pretty much sailing blind. Always try to include at least 1 or 2 herings in your force to give a just a bit of extra vision. Keep in mind though, that the Hering is a fleet support ship, not a scout so don't send it out unescorted since its not fast enough to run away if jumped. Also reclaim is really important, even if you can't get rez subs mid, build constructors to reclaim wreck fields since navy wrecks have way more metal in them than all other units. Also you are building way more E generation before your lab, which delays your scouting and expansion. You generally only need 3 winds before the lab, and if wind stalls you can build solar or tidals which are almost as efficient as fusions on this map.

Units will try to not attack it's own/allied units, that's why you can't shoot your own units. Due to changed directions of moving units, and/or inaccuracy of weapons, this can happen in battles, but a unit will stop firing once it sees an allied unit in his fire-arc/trajectory. Nice find with the acceleration/turn-speed differences with patrolling with formation and that this can, over time, mismatch a 'patrol' group. We've not seen many people using patrol + keep formation a lot and/or with combined unit compositions. This is likely a very hard thing to solve, unless you make every unit wait on each point for the entire group, and only start when every unit has reached its destination. As we don't actually assign a 'squad' to a group of selected patrols, but only set the max speed of a unit when ordering the move/patrol command with formation (to the unit-speed of the slowest unit in the selection). It might be doable to link these, but this might come at quite a high performance cost. The 3 stealth tanks misaligning over time is probably because of the bottom patrol line being slightly longer. Also possible is that on the first move, the lowest tank was maybe facing a different direction and had to turn first. It's all a simulation, so pathing calculations are done in realtime after each new patrol point. With different terrain, or just a different turn-calculation it can add up over time. Usually it's more important to have a nice stream of units patrolling a line, and much less important it stays in an exact formation.

Usually I check winrate sites for highest winrate items for my rank then adjust/swap-out items that suits my playstyle.

That was epic. I love how greedy Piggy was grabbing the samples at the end there. Getting left hanging at the end was hilarious.