[douglas]

Oh, right, ramming ships. I've had some experience with fighting those in a few games, and it seems in my experience that orders to ram are treated as "Do not get hurt" for the very first round of combat. I haven't specifically tested this, but at least once I had a space monster go through a warp point in The Galactic Invasion 2 to find a mixed fleet of rammers and shooters defending it. The shooters took their shots immediately as I'd expect, but the rammers all ran away for one round, then turned around and came back, chasing my ship through the rest of the battle. I think it finally ended when one of them caught up with me.