Message text I think its because the combat value is less than 0.....
Your observer only shoots if you have a positive chance of hitting and doing damage...
In the game you state.....Your fire factor is
Base value 4 Attackers speed 3 or 4 -2 Attacker has single gun -2 Firing with deflection -2
For a grand total of -2, therefore no chance of a hit.
I think that the webmasters are writing code so that it will show up in the messages window that the observer has no chance of hitting....
Hope this helps

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