Did space combat rules change?

[Chasm]

Starting game with humans, medium level difficulty. 1st space fight, 1st enemy salvo, both heavy lasers disabled (fighting 3 human frigates). 2nd space fight, fighting a human light cruiser 1st enemy salvo both heavy lasers disabled. In both fights (usually fairly easy ones) I barely won, and with most of my weapons disabled at the end. Just very bad luck, or did something change?

[Arioch]

Nothing that I'm aware of.

[Chasm]

Are troopships considered military vessels now. Usually civilian vessels take 3 turns to warp out, but I have seen enemy troopships escaping in 1 turn.

[sven]

Are troopships considered military vessels now. Usually civilian vessels take 3 turns to warp out, but I have seen enemy troopships escaping in 1 turn.

Depends on the type of troopship. All troopships that share the transport hull should have a 3 turn retreat time, but the military transport hulls used by some races (like Orthin or Ashdar) should have a 1 turn retreat time.

If you notice a cargo-ship hull retreating in a single turn, that's a bug (for which it would be helpful to have a game upload ).

[Chasm]

No, this was an invasion group attacking one of my worlds. 2 troopships and 2 destroyers. Entire group warped out after 1 round of combat. They were the troopship configuration (armor bays), not cargo hold but they were not docking field ships. Was a few games ago, will see if I can get it to happen again.

[sven]

No, this was an invasion group attacking one of my worlds. 2 troopships and 2 destroyers. Entire group warped out after 1 round of combat. They were the troopship configuration (armor bays), not cargo hold but they were not docking field ships. Was a few games ago, will see if I can get it to happen again.

Do you recall what race they were? Could be a glitch in a race-specific config file somewhere.

[Chasm]

Fairly certain it was orthin, but not 100 % sure. Could have been ashdar.