OK I go to all the trouble of building a nice fleet armed with missiles and attack the iconians starbase in my territory. Here is how the fight goes, the iconians drone fly out to meet me and are destroyed. My ships carry on approaching the station until missile range is reached. Then the space station and my fleet both open fire with missiles.
So far so good, it's at this point that my captains show me they aren't in the top branches of the iq tree, they carry on flying towards the station letting it bring not just it's missiles but also lasers and mass drivers into play winning a Darwin award. I still won but one of my ships was destroyed and another took a lot of damage and much of it could have been avoided.
ships should try and use reach advantage when they have it like for instance when they can easily avoid 66% of the enemies weapons just by staying out of range while still hitting with all or most of there weapons.
The tactical combat Ai looks like it could be greatly improved.