1 hour ago, thespaceinvader said:

The problem is that by them moving last, they get the opportunity to take away your opportunity to shoot at all.

It doesn't matter if you get the chance to shoot, if they can take your shot away entirely.

Shooting first isn't that big a benefit compared to moving last. There's a reason Decoy and Swarm Tactics mostly stink.

I am not disagreeing with anything you are saying. Im just saying that by splitting up the phases, it does make the Current VI a little less powerful. Of course most people would take the action phase version that I described over the combat phase version and it would still be powerful, but at least in some situations where the ship could arc dodge and get a PS kill it would be slightly less powerful if the other ship were to at least get a shot off against some target before dying.