Fleets

I'm wondering where we are with fleets? I seem to remember that their was some problems with fleets and combat. Did that get resolved and is it in the current game.

I ask because I sent two dreadnoughts with 35 battlecruisers against a colony that had 15 fighters and lost. I sent them in as a fleet. Now barring stealth orbitals I would have thought that I would have won. But all ships were destroyed and the colony wasn't mine.

Without battle notifications i'm feeling a little lost.

So are fleets fixed? Should I not be using fleets for combat? Is their going to be a notification in the battle message that stealth orbitals were in play.

I just have no idea what is happening in my battles unless I'm the winner.

If the planet had a decent population, it could have killed all your ships. Combat for fleets should work.

if you are fighting a colony with any kind of population at all, you are going to need a heck of a lot more ships than that. Especially if they are already at war with you, and they get the over-powered "first strike".

@Marked - for small naked colony of 400Mu you need 232 battleships. What you have used was simple not enough.

Alright thanks guys. What about battle notifications? What info will they give you. Will you have an idea if stealth orbitals are being used?