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Originally posted by dumbluck:
Yes, and you were close.

In the strategies menu, under firing, you need to change the Targeting Priority. It generally defaults to something like Strongest, nearest, most damaged, has weapons or some such nonsense.
You need to change the Ramming strategy (or is it named Kamakazi?) to be something closer to Nearest, has weapons, strongest, most damaged. Of coarse, you can tailor it to your needs, but if you want to have them attack the nearest ships, then make sure the first entry is Nearest.

Also, check the newbie FAQ sticky thread, I'm sure there is a section in there about the strategies screen. Heck, I probably need to check it to refresh on some things!

I did that. The result was as I described. The ships continued to steam full spead ahead to the big ship in the back of the fleet. Ignoring the little ships in front of them even when their targeting priorities were set to "nearest, weakest, has weapons, etc." If I put a direct fire weapon on them then they would fire on these weaker ships as they past, but still ram the big ship in the back. I'm a bit confused by this myself...