This is a good reason to suggest to Malfador, enlargening the combat maps.
I can't tell you how frustrating it was, pre-gold, in a PBW game that I was playing, where the enemy always fired first, had religous talismans, and attacked with 100 ships, to lose several space stations with extremely long range weapons, because the battle group spread all the way to the station, at the beginning of the round!
I know the grammar in that sentence is horrible, but my head hurts and I don't want to try to fix it.
--Ed