Popup is correct...make sure the "Both sides musct be Fleets" option is turned off, otherwise the cinematic battles will only happen when both sides are fleets (read: not very often)

Popup is correct...make sure the "Both sides musct be Fleets" option is turned off, otherwise the cinematic battles will only happen when both sides are fleets (read: not very often)

I understand this, but the box has been unchecked all along and I still am not getting the cinematics. The cinematics happened once and only once, and not again.

Actually, they don't. I have had all the options checked or unchecked as the case may be, except I changed it to "Full" from "Normal" while playing earlier. I got one cinematic battle and no others. Now it appears to be working correctly.

I wonder if this was one of those "doesn't take effect until you restart the game" deals? If so, why did it work once? Who knows, my killer big-boat just blew up every scout I came across.

Defenses of 9-10-10 and Attacks of 32-24-30, and 24 moves per turn. This was a beast. Only problem was that I made 2 of them and lost in about 5 turns due to no money and an invasion fleet. I did blow up everything I met until then, though, and that was really, really, really fun!

Whew, you should see this ship design!