Skipped Turns ... what to know about?

I think I understand what's going on here. When you go over your time limit for a turn, you skip the next one or more turns. But this probably means that none of the events are fired or anything else when you call execute(), and the while loop still runs.

If you think about what code is actually executing from your bot, there's the main while loop, and whenever you call execute, Robocode processes the setXXX stuff you've called and fires all your events. There's no way really for Robocode to make your main while loop skip ahead a couple of iterations. But presumably, no events are being fired for that tick, and any "actions" you take in the while loop are not happening when you call execute().