[geoschmo]

You can fight just fine while cloaked. It all depends on whether the enemy can see you.

In your question of whether you can hunt the enemy down while cloaked, if they cannot see yoru ship then no combat will occur. It doesn't matter if your ship has orders to attack, or if the enemy just moves into the sector with them.

On the other hand if the enemy can see your cloaked ships then combat will occur in either case, whenter you are attacking them or if they move into your square.

If you have several ships in a sector, some cloaked and some not, all your ships will be involved in the combat. This is a good way to suprise teh other guy. You have one ship not cloaked looking all defensless and then when teh enemy attacks thinking for an easy kill they are suprised by a bunch of cloaked ships showing up in combat. This is the exception to the above rule that the enemy has to see you ships to have combat with them. If there is combat occuring for other reasons your cloaked ships will be involved either way. During combat the enemey can see them regardless of their sensors. After combat is over if they survive any cloaked ships will be invisible again.