Combat

[Ward]

Although I am fairly certain what the responses will be, I was curious if people preferred strategic or tactical when involved in a space battle.

When I bought SEIV I preferred tactical. I was happy I could crush AI. But soon that was no fun and it took a long time. I like to play really big empires and 5-10 combats in 1 round is awfully long time. Then I reviewed strategies and now I play only strategic combat. The only thing I didn't manage the AI to do is dogfighting(to approach, fire and retreat in one round so that the enemy can't fire on you). I believe this is the main reason why human opponents win. Programming advanced tactics isn't that difficult and I really don't understand why the Creators of SEIV didn't spend more time on this. It is one on the most important things in SEIV after all.