how do you do upgrade for more squadrons?

I believe the squadron cap is increased as the Cap ship levels, Garrett. It's automatic. Somebody around here can probably provide the specific requirements for specific ships, but I can't recall them off the top of my head. However, the Advent does have tech that increases, I believe, the size of squadrons.

-HD

you mean it's based on experience and the ability thing? or is it something that can be researched, like fleet caps and command points or what?

thanks garrett

For capital ships it's based on level, so directly related to experience. You don't spend ability points on it though, it's seperate and automatic.

Only the advent can research for *larger* strike groups, but even they can't get *more* strike groups per unit through research.

If you're talking about modding the game for more fighters on non-carrier capships then I saw a thread about that earlier in the week you could search for.

Otherwise, basically you just have to level up the capships. The light carrier units never get more than one squadron... which is a bit mean really. I would have given them two so that I wouldn't have to choose between bombers or fighters. It's a nuisance keeping track of who has what so that the fleet ends up balanced without risking accidentally giving a capship too many of the bombers so that it can't defend itself from fighters.

You don't need to research anything, you need to level up the Cap ship.

Different Caps gain new squadrons at different rates - the Carrier Cap gains them fastest. The manual entry for each Cap ship tells you how many squadrons it starts with, and how many it can reach through levelling up.

The manual says "Upgradeable to X" which is misleading. It doesn't require any interaction from the player other then selecting which strikecraft you want when the Cap ship hits the nessisary level.