2 hours ago, ripper998 said:

Because commanders usually are on the highest value ship, not some scrub destroyer trying to hide from the fight.

What about if they are all scrub destroyers trying to hid from the fight ( otherwise known as CR90As)

1 hour ago, ripper998 said:

So because you cant tuck your admiral away on a safe ship its now that the rules suck? This is about creating an actual task force which has your largest base ship in the center with your commander with all your other ships having their jobs to do. Nothing changes in that aspect.

But it isn't always a 'task force with the largest base ship in the center'. The idea of a rule that says your commander must go on the largest ship in your fleet actually hurts fleet construction in one obvious way to me. The Liberty MC80 pretty much goes away except in fleets where a H1MC80 also exists.

The LMC80 is a great flanker, not the center of a task force. It is also a paper tiger for its size putting out decent amounts of firepower but if flanked or swarmed with bombers it will certainly go down. Everyone will want to play tanky ships for their largest ship, so you have the commander on ISDs, H1MC80s but you pretty much kill off LMC80. Thankfully this is a rule I just don't foresee FFG implementing.

6 hours ago, Darth Lupine said:

We're he has always been, the biggest ship in the fleet, or one of them if multiples.

The quote was so nice, I posted it twice!

8 hours ago, TaeSWXW said:

Admonition.

Get closer, I dare you.

Certainly. One shot an Admonition at my store champs.

I'd say whatever ship will have the best chance of survival. Now, depending on what you're running, that might change. For instance, if you're running Motti and you have an ISD, you'd probably want to put him there. If you're running Cracken, you'd want to put him on a CR90, probably. Or if you're running a carrier based list and your carrier hangs back with fighter cover, that might be a good place for your admiral.

It's up to you, really, as long as you don't fly the flagship off the board first round.

On 6/26/2017 at 7:10 PM, Destraa said:

Certainly. One shot an Admonition at my store champs.

That Admonition forgot the face of his father.

1 hour ago, Caldias said:

That Admonition forgot the face of his father.

To be fair, I had activation advantage on him, and forced him to go at one ISD1 or another. Neither of which had activated yet. One of those also had a planetary ion cannon token right where he'd land going at one of them. He chose the perceived lesser of two evils.

My commander should go on whichever ship is the least likely to be killed unless i intended it to happen/expect to play around it.

Commanders don't go on HMC80s for defense. They go there to focus the opponent on one ship.

I prefer to choose a commander that is of most benefit in the early game. So if I lose him mid-game everything is fine.

11 hours ago, Caldias said:

That Admonition forgot the face of his father.

Big salvos are admos weakness, close range and 9+2 acc or 12 damage . You only need 7 to trickle past, it is hardly impossible.

Just now, Darthain said:

Big salvos are admos weakness, close range and 9+2 acc or 12 damage . You only need 7 to trickle past, it is hardly impossible.

I am more than familiar with how possible it is. I will next time make sure to tag my post with an "I'm mostly kidding" tag.