In a current game, I was targeting a single enemy fighter with my own 2 fighters. Enemy fighter was down to about 10% health, my 2 were at about 20%.
I target the fighter to eliminate it. Close nearby there is an enemy stack of 10 fighters returning to base (after having hit my stack). I double check to see that I'm not targeting the 10 stack.
Still, at contact, my 2 fighters perish and the enemy loses nothing. Not even the 10% health fighter.
I guess I was defeated by the 10-stack. Does it defend it's proximity-neighbour even when on the run? How far apart do they need to be to avoid this?
And why did the enemy fighter not take any damage at all? Does defender somehow shoot first?
Check your front reports. It should tell you which army defeated it. Also, in every battle there is an X-factor that means an attack might do from zero to 100% of the listed damage. This is in addition to the effects of terrain, forts, and home defense.
Defending patrol shoot first against target attack, that’s right.
But I know nothing about damage from returning stack, who is not able to stand into patrolling.
Are you sure, that was no any other defending patrol, whom you couldn’t see due to small view range, if this situation happened over the enemy territory?
No, friendly. So there was no AA.
I guess I was just 100% unlucky? My 2 20% health fighters lost all their life to a 10% fighter (same level) without doing damage.
And just before that, my same stack used to be full health 6 fighters, was jumped by 10 fighters that took no damage while I lost 4 and the 2 last took 80%.
2 times no damage done? That sounds like my usual luck
When attacking another target with an aircraft, the defending target always strikes first (not the case when attacking with ground troops btw). If the remaining damage of the 1 fighter + X-Factor was enough to beat your 2 fighters, that could explain it. Then they got beaten before their damage came out.
Other than that, also the returning fighters could still have interfered. Every attack strikes against all armies within 5 distance units of the attack location, meaning also all targets within these 5 units strike back. So if the returning stack was pretty close, that could also have been the reason.
Thanx. Lesson learned!
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