in need of sage advice, pronto!

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Ruatha:

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4:In the strategies screen, you can choose how much damage to inflict before moving on to the next target.

IIRC that doesn't work well when you're dealing with weapons like engine killers, etc. If just the engines are damaged, you probably have not hit the damage threshold for the weapons to switch targeting. The damage percentage is "total damage" not "component-specific damage" IIRC.

That's why I spread my component-specific weapons (especially engine killers) out across several ships and not just specialized designs....