seeking advice: combat bug

they can flee as well.. for example 'anti-figter' fighters can't hurt ships, so they decided to flee... your scout think the same, but fighters is much faster... so they flee first... battle ended and you scout called 'survivor' in the short log message. If you click 'details' you will see which vehicle is destroyed and which just flee.

It's strange, because I have a game with the same setup as you. 20 of my enemy's fighters attacked me. I lost 30 fighters for his loss of 7. The replay doesn't work (I get another empire's) and I can't imagine how I could have lost so much. The fighters are at worst equal. As far as I can determine I should have wiped him out with minor losses.

I gave you an answer at Intel. Basically if the enemy is spread out and attacks individually, each fighter can't cause enough damage before your organic armour regenerates before the next attack.

I believe these fighters were destroyed because their supplies were depleted for some reason. I had a similar situation when my fighters, having tanks almost full the previous turn, started fighting in the next one without any supplies. There was no problem with seeing the combat so perhaps it is a different bug. In my case I suspect a savegame issue as in this turn I tried to see if the savegame build queue bug is corrected and saved/loaded in the middle of the turn. Perhaps it affected somehow supply levels. It happened to me only twice and both times I saved/loaded during a turn. So, my suggestion is to re-do the turn without saving/loading in case of your opponent and see if that works. I am very interested in hearing what the results are.