Picking your targets for more damage points?

I pick targets based on how effective my attack would be. Wasting my RDB load on an ancile would be foolish.

The main reason i use 2 thunder ork lances lol shoot and kill everything!
In plasma setups i th to avoid galahads, just to annoying and time consuming, only if their my only shot... lances shield is less annoying so ill sit there n plasma fight em with my galahad or ancilot .
To answer the question tho hell yes i pick my targets and avoid annoying shields unless i have to, wich is quite often.
Oh and i almost always go for griffons first

I shoot what can die the fastest. You will cut down return enemy fire faster which means you and friends will survive longer to deal more damage.

I target reds with the right shield for my weapon as much as possible. With plasma or Zeus, I'm hunting Carnages and Fujin and will ignore other bots. Try to hunt phys shield bots with rockets but that's a little more difficult and less important.

The main thing I try to avoid is bad teamwork. Draining an Ancile is a waste you have an ally with plasma nearby, but if you have a rocket buddy it's a good play. Phys shields I try to flank or help an ally flank, but shooting those shields can at least get rid of them for good eventually. I've hammered away at Raijin shields with my plasmahad plenty.

I do all three poll options depending on my mood (not which bots I'm using). Sometimes, I don't feel like fighting too much... like yesterday in the Canyon, I was in my Boa the entire match standing under beacon C. My teammates were killing reds all around me while I just stood there holding beacon C so they couldn't capture it from their side or from the top. IIRC, I was 4th in damage on my team (I killed a Gareth that dared to come to our side to try to kill my Boa). We won the match.

Yes, I pick targets for more damage.  However, I don't consider breaking a Lance's shield with plasma or zeroing an Ancile with my Thunder a waste of time.  

Sure, I don't fire DB salvos into fully HP's Anciles, but I'd do it if I knew that my teammates have rockets and I know that they will finish the job.  

Winning gets you more silver, so I pick targets that I know will suffer the most a full salvo.  Chances are there are more than one target or you must use your salvo to assist a teammate --- and when those times come, I go for hitting the more dangerous red (i.e. higher strategic value to the red team) or saving my teammate over even an easy kill immediately in front of me (I just would like the target select button to NOT be right next to the big red button so I can target cpsekect faster or not accidentally fire all my weapons).

I can understand, but in my experience, probably due to my weapons level, rocket salvos do precious little to anciles and leave me defenceless. 

I strip down anciles when I have a Thunder, or when its low enough that my salvos would deplete it 

I've realized lately that an RDB Griffin is quite effective in that support role - not flatlining a target outright, but weakening it so your teammates can finish them off with ease. More so against Gareths and Galahads than Leos though.

I usually shoot at anything red in reach. If there are multiple targets, i pick specific ones:

- Ancile -> Plasma or a full load of pins/tulumbas which often depletes the whole shield, hoping a teammate finishes him
- Shields -> Rockets, especially love to unload my Pinatas/Orkans at Galahads or Lancelots
- Snipers -> Approach him with my Plasma Gareth and most of the time finish him or leave him with almost no HP's so a teammate can finish the job
- Aphid/Hydra spammers -> Also trying to hunt them down with my Gareth ... Sometimes works, sometimes not
- Carnages -> Usually i die, as soon as they look at me... lol

If there is a griffin and a brit bot working together. I will shoot the unshielded first. If they are the same in regards to shields i will go after the biggest threat.

5 Patton's vs 9 destriers.

20 light weapons to 18 and let's not forget health if a not has 20% more health then it can do 20% more damage than a not with 20% and same fire power

I chose #2 for the most part. I do try to keep on the lookout for firefights with Carnage's or Lance's. I figure if I can drop their Ancil, or severely cripple them, then that should be a 1 up for a teammate to take them down.

I go for the softer target whenever I have a choice. It's not really about damage points, but the quicker I can kill a red the less damage me and the blues take, so yeah, I'll lock onto the griff or carny with my pdb griff when I'm facing a pair or more of reds, and yeah, if I see a galahad I go elsewhere, because alone he'll smoke me, so I go find a softer target and let my splash buddies handle the shield bot.