I must confess I would prefer if the targetting worked somewhat differently; i.e. every ships targets an untargetted ship until all have at least one target, and only then does doubling up occur.

With a few additions... unarmed ships not targeted until all armed ones are dead, and perhaps allow focused targeting as a civ ability, researched technology or ship component.

I can't help but feel this would remove some of the abuses of the current system and enhance the importance of defence.

Then again; it's not a big deal.

Franbo