How do fleet battles work?

So in the trailer for the fleet battles, the battle watcher, it shows like 20 ships. The problem i have is the fleets always divide into threes, so i can only have 3v3 fights. I can't get more than 1 fleet to fight at a time. And this sucks, because if they have 3 ships, and i have 20, rather than mobbing and crushing them like what should happen, they divide and conquer and kill like 7 ships. Not only does this make for sad looking battles, it crushes me. Fighters dont even mean anything anymore, i just spam corvettes since my first tactic of swarms of fighters doesn't work. Also, I wish in free roam you could use the arrow keys to move around, because currently when i try to zoom in with the cursor in free roam, it zooms out. and zooms out when i zoom out. Does any one have a fix to either of these problems? Thx in advance!

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fleets are limited in size by the "logistics" value of your civilization. you can increase that value with advanced technology. each ship size has a size attribute which determines how many logistcs points it uses. a tiny ship uses 2 logistcs, so you can stack up to 5 tiny ships in a fleet when your logistics cap is at 10 points. larger shipts cost more lgistics points, so with the same 10 logistics cap, you can only have 2 medium ships (size 5).

later in the game you'll probably have something like 30 to 50 logistics, so you can have fairly large fleets.

hope that helps - not really sure if that's what you are talking about.

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