OK, now these seem like bugs:
-when entering a sector with enemies, at the screen where you place your forces before going to the tactical map, the sector is entirely fuzzed out....meaning there is not margin where you can place your merc squads. The only way I can enter the map is to hit spread and then my mercs are all lined up along the map edge. I can't place them individually or as squads.

-secondly, when I attack from an adjacent sector with militia reinforcements the militia don't actually do anything. they just stay on the map edge and don't move around at all. Even after I engaged the enemy they didn't advance towards the sound.

PS: is there an actual page or forum topic that clearly illustrates the current NCTH info that is displayed during combat? I can figure out the cursor crosshairs from other discussions but there are little colored numbers that show up over the merc/enemy when they are shot at (along with the damage number). what do these mean?

PPS: also is there a way to turn off this on screen discussion where you are apparently supposed to mediate between the comments generated by various members of your merc team? This is greatly annoying....and I haven't found anything that actually explains what this is all about.