pleegwat True. Even though that CAN be worked around with the controls, you'd have to pause, check, check again, fire, pause, check, fire, process that can get pretty tedious after a while. Smarter U.I., pretty much, though focused on that matter, would avoid that, and would make the game much more fluid when playing with complex battleships. And that's the whole idea behind what pleegwat is trying to say, i think.
