Just want to clarify some maneuver points please...

Flying a swarm 2 wide by 3 deep. The distance between the front of one ship and the back of its following ship is range 1 (or, for the side by side ships, the ship sides farthest away from each other are range 1...). This puts the front edge of the back ships within range one of the back edge of the front ships (for howlrunner)

For turns, each ship takes the same turn maneuver - this keeps the column in the same orientation but rotates each ship 90 degrees to either the right or left.

For banks, the ships on the 'inside' of the turn must take a bank maneuver 1 LESS than the ships on the outside of the turn, otherwise due to the 45 degree turn they bump

A kturn keeps the same orientation but turns tge ships 180 degrees making the ships that were at the back of the column now in lead position and visa versa...

That's all right, right? Any other points to consider?

You're correct.

That's all right, right? Any other points to consider?

Pinwheel formation, if you google it you should be able to find a spiffy tutorial.

try this one: every ship in a staggered formation with the ships being exactly the width of a manuever template:

x x x
x x x

never ever will have any bumping, even if you do the same manuever (bank 3 for example)

Thanks for input so far guys - it's been a while since I ran swarm (Wave 1/2) So feeling a bit rusty...