Mobile repair ships are poo!

[Huw]

Now that I have your attention with my silly newspaper headline-style thread subject, I'll concede that mobile repair ships probably aren't poo, it's more likely that I'm not using them properly.  However...

I just built my first one and sent it to accompany my strike fleet into an enemy world.  The problem is that they move really slowly, speed 8 I think which is the slowest I've seen anything move, and so they couldn't keep up with the fleet.  Of course it'd be pointless to have the fleet move at the same speed as the repair ship because then we'd crawl all over the map.

I suppose the alternative is to park it near the middle of the map, or as near as is safe, and send the fleet to it for repairs between battles.  But that wouldn't really make it very useful either.

How do you guys use yours?

[x4000]

You should leave them way off away from the battle, then build space tugs.  Mobile repair stations without space tugs are indeed poo.

[Revenantus]

X is indeed correct, the MRS requires tugs to function effectively. Park the MRS at your beach head and use the tugs to bring units to it for repair as required, as you say it's too slow to accompany the fleet as they cruise around the planet and it's a bit too fragile for that purpose anyway.

[Revenantus]

As an added tip, assign the MRS to a control group as soon as its constructed, that way all the tugs it produces will automatically be in the same control group. This helps to simplify things on the management front.

[Huw]

Aha!  Right!  Tugs it is then, I haven't actually built any of those yet.  Thanks very much for the advice, guys.

[CautiousChaos]

poo makes me laugh.

[x4000]

It's even funnier if you know that Huw evidently (from what I have seen today) goes by the name Huw The Poo on other forums.

[Huw]

Yeah, but that's the good kind of poo. 

[x4000]

Oh, it all makes perfect sense now.