Talk:General Discussion/@comment-13224152-20140920073026/@comment-24332640-20140920221240

Man, are we still going on about this? I'm not debating that line abreast is worse for torpedoes then echelon...but is it so much worse that it's worth having a third of your fleet totally useless for the actual battle? Those two subs aren't going to do squat. If you went with a fleet of 6 useful ships even if you somehow had two ships hit to red with the enemy in echelon formation (which rarely happens) you're still in a better position than having two ships doing literally nothing. Not to mention that with the enemy fleet in line abreast their defense is higher so they're harder to kill.

It just seems unnecessarily limiting. Especially since as I mentioned subs generally don't need the XP.