All that you just described was tactical combat. And AI questions usually get answered by "The Frog King" himself.

DARCA

Well depending on what role options you can assign to your ships when you design them in the ship yard.  Assuming the other fleet is comparable to yours both fleets has battleships one cruisers and a carrier with fighters then your fighters would not do much if they were like on Sins of a solar empire  your fighters would attack your cruisers where your cruiser would be helping the battleships take out the enemies battleship. You will assign the roles to the ships in the shipyard, and when the battle engages all you do is watch it. I think you should probably list suggestions in what roles you want your ships to play in combat that you can pick like one I want is to focus on transports first. I think listing different roles with priorities would be nice.

I wholeheartedly agree with that please Stardock don't do this unless it is reasonably competent unless you give me an option to shut this off. It sounds like a good idea if they do it right.

Yes little is known except they are not going to have tactics and they are going to keep most things the same. So I'm trying to visualize theese changes based on the assumption that they are based around the current game. We know that the battles will still be done automatically cause thardey said so. We know that ship roles will be assigned in the shipyard when you design your ship. I hope that there will be an option to change the role through the description of the ship also. I have to assume that the roles will be competent. I have no impression on what or how the roles will be. I think if people have ideas they should probably start making lists.