I have a theory, on the combat window for the ship is your short ranged fire control the first one listed on the drop down menu?
Excuse me if I'm wrong but your problem might be related to misassigned launcher/firefontrol.
Turn off auto fire, as far as I recall it's buggy. Also it will only use the first fire control.
Now here's the basic order for missile combat.
First: assign missiles to each launcher.
Second: assign each launcher to a fire control. Make sure it's the long range 100 resolution one.
Third: if the target is in range it will appear in the list beside the selected firefontrol , select the target and assign it.
Then select open fire.
Firing may take a minute if the crew is very inexperienced, you'll get a message in the events window about the ship preparing to fire.
I know this is very old post. However I am having the same issue.
I have assigned missiles to the launchers.
I have assigned launchers to the fire control.
That all works up to that point.
I do get a list of enemy contacts.
I select any enemy ship and assign the fire control to target it and that part fails.
I can not get the fire control to manually lock on to a target.
I am well in range. The enemy has 40% ecm offset.
I have a fire control range of 109m/km for HS40 (2000 ton) target.
The actual range to target is 20m/km the target ship is 7900 ton target.
The missile range is 60m/km.
I have an AWACS providing the active sensor portion of the targeting info.
None of my missile fire controls will lock onto an enemy ship in manual or auto target mode.
None of my pd missiles will fire either in pd mode.
I believe when you put the anti missile fire control into pd mode you are supposed to get some sort of feedback that the fire control is set up correctly.
I get nothing. The fire control does turn orange when I click on open fire.
The anti missile ship has a fire control range of 110m/km for HS1 target and the anti missile missile range is 10m/km
They never fire. I can track incoming missiles out to a range of 5m/km.
How can I fix this?