Are battles always one sided?

[geoschmo]

Askan,

Not only were his ships bigger than yours, but he was using PBB, which take up 30 Kt of space and fire every turn, and you were using Quantum Torps, which take 40 Kt of space and fire every other turn. So your 3-1 numerical advantage in ships is now down really worse than 2- 1, to almost equal strength in terms of force of firepower.

In my experience, ship experience won't overcome a huge advantage by the other side, but it will turn an otherwise even fight into a complete rout. You didn't have the huge advantage you thought you did, because you were merely looking at the raw numbers of ships instead of the total amount of firepower in the fleet.

Had your fleets had similer levels of experience, then it would have most likely been an very even fight, and quite a blood bath. Probably high damage on both sides with very few ships from either side capable of leaving the field of battle undamaged.

Geoschmo