[Zooko]

It's a good point, Azhur.

I would find real-time battles more fun to watch, because I get tired of waiting for arrows to fly.

In fact, I sometimes hit fast-forward while arrows are in flight and then hit pause as soon as the following turn happens so I can see what's going on.

Azhur's complaint about arbitrary first-strike could be solved by making battle moves simultaneous but still turn based. But simultaneous games have a whole bunch of funny corner cases, of course...

The devs should play Titan -- the strategy board game -- if they haven't. It's combat rules are interesting and they avoids weird corner cases. Titan's combat rules are not simultaneous-move.

I kind of feel like the Dom combat rules, which evolved (I guess) from a board game, should evolve some more to be best for a computer game and not a board game...