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Originally posted by Rich04:
Tweaking Ship/Fleet Strategy is very important.
In my 1st PBW game I lost several battles that looked even without inflicting significant losses to the enemy fleet. Upon viewing the battles I finally figured out what was happening. My ships were failing to kill off damaged ships. They would fire until the opponent was disabled and move on to the next target. The opponent had enough repair ships to fix his fleet each turn. This is the default setting for SE4 and what very often turns a battle into a one sided slaughter. If your opponent has more ships you will almost always lose without inflicting any losses, all else being equal.
Uhm AFAIK, repairs don't get made during combat. Only after combat. So I think it's a perfectly viable strategy to use the "fire till no more weapons" option, disable his ships, then hunt down the sitting ducks once none of them can fire back anymore.
In fact the only time I can imagine you would NOT want to use this option is if the fleets involved are so large (and/or slow) that you can't disable, hunt down and then destroy everything within 30 combat turns.
Anybody? Why is "fire until weapons gone" not turned on by default?