[Wardad]

Damn good questions.

Fire first:
1. The defender should always move and fire first.
2. Of course if the enemy is not in range the firing does not happen. In this case the first to close into firing range, gets to fire first.
3. A stationary fleet is a defender.

Things that went bump in the night:
Placement:
1. An ally and I were defending a warp point. The enemy warped in and..... Both defending fleets were in seperate corners and out of range for that first shot.

2. My fleet used one move to jump through a warp point and defend it. The enemy fleet used 5 moves to come through the same warp point from the same direction. So how come the enemy got to fire first?

3. My fleet was moving away from an enemy fleet and was overtaken. We both started at the same side of the combat area and I got first shot.