I just had to deal with a combat involving a lot of FACs on both side... I must confess that having your fingers caught in a closing door is a more pleasing experience ... Because interface-wise, ouch, oh the pain, I almost gave up my game.
I mass assigned with F8 my missiles to fire control without problem. Then I used the 'same loc' button to assign a target to each of my FAC. Problem, I have more ships than the enemy, an extra 50 FACs and same loc won't do its trick if the enemy ship is already targeted ...
So aside from assigning the 50 remaining FACs of me to others targets, I found no other solution. Do you have tricks here?
Second point, how do you use auto-fire and synch fire check box? I never got them to work. It seems they work together, but if this is the case, why not just have one checkbox?
Bottom line, how can I tell my ships, once they have missile to fire control assigned, which is easy to do en masse, to fire automatically on any ships they want, so I can forget the rest?