Opfire (no, not about the draining problem...)

[Anton]

Hello all!

This question arose after playing the Tutorial scenario for the Irag side. As I drove my T-72 tanks onto the ridgeline they immediately got shot by the Abrams's. Once my tank climbed on, every Abrams had a chance to take a shot at it. If only my tank was exceptionally lucky, it had an opporntunity to fire before being destroyed.

If a similar situation occured in reality, most of Iraq tanks would go on the ridgeline simultaneously making it much harder for the Abrams's to destroy them, because they wouldn't be able to defeat them one by one.

Hereby I'd like to ask: What's the algorithm for determining who shots first in a situation when the units engaged see each other?