I gotta bump this because i'm at a complete standstill. I'm doing something wrong, or something is wrong, and if I can't get this war started, my glorious infantry cannot burn the alien's homeworld to the ground. I must first ascertain whether what is happening is a bug or something else.
As you can see, thats the target list for one of the Defender ships-- the MFC has the missiles... the missiles are in the tubes, but the only target is the population. I'm only 25 m km away.
This continues all the way to range = zero.
Is there some way to declare war that I'm not seeing? I can make the population vanish by clicking "show hostile contacts only" but nothing else is happening.