Missiles vs Satellites...

First of all i'm playing with the 1.33 european version. No patch available for this version and i'am really thinking of downloading an illegal us version of the game i have paid to be abble to play of the full game (with patchs and mods)

After this i have a question :

My 3 frigates have 2 missiles launcher each. I attack a planet with 3 satelittes ship.
None of my frigates fires at satelittes, they all always go close to the planet directly (and then beeing killed by the satellites)

I have a longer range. When i fight manually i can move my ship at the good range, then manually fire at the planet outranging the satellites. But even manualy if i set the satelittes as target, my ship don't fire.

I don't think it's a formation/tactics problem, cause i disband the formation and do all the fight manually.

Can someone help with this ?

2 - Is the "Guard" Order works on 1.33 ? When i hit it, my ship don't have any order on them.

thanks for your help