With the first “crude look” at the Battle viewer, all I can say is WOW you guys rock! I can hardly wait to play with it. Battle tactics and ship design looks to be a really big part of GC3. In GC2 I could build a bad ass ship without too much regard of what I would be going against and really had no problem (or fun) with battles. I know SD been saying how great the new system will be, and it looks like they will deliver.
Will we be getting technical details on combat .. specifics on range, damage, fire rate.. and approximate damage equations? Hope so, cause it looks like we are going to need it!