User blog comment:Owlfeathers0117/An idea to make surface ships useful again./@comment-24142455-20141217152356/@comment-27797576-20141217160023

yeah, Tenelapis has a mix of skermishes(underground) and large scale battles(above ground). underground would be due to valuable resources in deposits because ore areas are not created equal, and commonly are not equally spread out. above ground, the only thing to do is take vents, which would require flying ship fleet engagements. Caelmare is mainly skermishes, with some fleet battles here and there(actually, you could do huge fleet battles, but that's after some people get very sizable fleets on the planet, and will start out with a lot of skirmishes with ship to ship or very small fleet vs very small fleet battles to start.)