[farstryder]

i'm all about having a smarter battle system for simultaneous games/strategic battle. here's why...

in a recent pbw game, an enemy had a fleet where half his ships were suicide warhead ships. it would have been really nice to be able to tell my ships to all focus fire on these first. it would also be nice to have more options generally in combat, like avoiding ships with certain components, targeting ships with certain components, more intelligent formations that operate with specific parameters, not just to maintain shape.

i'm not sure if all of this has already been said, but its really frustrating in a simultaneous game to have a superior force totally destroyed in strategic combat when in tactical, i could have trounced the opponent.