I'm having a hard time understanding exacly how the combat system works. For example in a skirmish I have two frigates going against a b-ship and 2 frigates of the opponent. My total combat stats are something like 21 missle, 4 point defense (missle def) and 1 laser def (shield), zeros for everything else. His total stats for his fleet is 9 missle offense and 51(!) shield def. Zeros for everything else. It seems to me that I should have the advantage in this battle because my missle off would cut right through his defenses and I'm not using and laser weapons at all so he shouldn't get any use from his shield def. But when the battle starts he creams me and I don't even scrach his 3 ships! And he's not gertting any starbsse bonuses (He's in my territory)

I don't get it could anyone explain why I can't touch his ships in this example because I sure can't figure it out...