Cameronius,
Well, I cant's argue with someone who has real military experience can I?
I accept that such control is not present in RL as it is in most of the wargames.
But seriously, this god-like control exists even with or without this debated feature isn't it? If it was not you could not turn weapons on and off. You would not be able to shoot with your units at the desired sequence to use at your best advantage etc. In SPWaW there is a command and control system which uses command points to set new waypoints to a platoon and to limit the maneuvre possibilities and there are command points used up for even changing attack and defense stances! I would be happy to have such in WinSPMBT but the required work is several magnitudes more than the implementation of this feature.
Put your hand on your heart and tell is it really this feature that makes such a huge difference in the level of control? IMO it does not.
However, if the designers of the game cannot make it possible for the players to make the decision about the target type a unit would fire at, I would suggest to leave the OP-fire routine as it is now.
Artur.