[Glyn]

I’m pretty sure that nearest doesn’t mean “absolute nearest”. I was in a late stage PBW game fighting against an enemy with about a 10% offensive and defensive edge over my ships. At point blank range I had about a 55% chance to hit so I wanted my ships to fire at the absolute nearest enemy ship. Even with a strategy of “nearest nearest nearest nearest” my ships would pick ships up to 5 squares away over closer valid targets.

To force my ships to only target near ships that they had a chance to hit, I switched to ripper beams which have a short range.