[davewski]

I am not referring to tactical combat. I am talking about simultaneous combat in the multi-player game. Everyone must choose tactics and targeting priorities for each ship and fleet prior to engaging combat. Otherwise the computer simply uses a default. The manual decisions people must make about how to design ships, fleet organizations, targeting orders and movements, and how to integrate them all together decides who wins combats in the multi-player games.

That is the manual aspect I am referring to.