Editing Task Force (section)

===Support Vessels===
If you equipped every ship with enough fuel tanks to travel halfway through the galaxy, you'd have no more room for weapons. Dito for missile reloads and spare parts (maintenance supplies). So you build specialized vessels to transport these and assign them to a task force as per your needs.

All special orders related to them are only available if you designate ship classes as [[tanker]], [[Supply Ship|supply ship]] or [[collier]] in the ship design window. Unlike other design parameters, you can change the designation of ship classes already in service.

You can also build maintenance ships which contain [[maintenance module]]s instead of performing standard maintenance at a base.