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?

Nothing that I'm aware of.

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.

Chasm wrote: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 ).

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.

Chasm wrote: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.

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