Okay so I generally don't auto-resolve except when battling like missile bases. And it has been a long time since I played MoO. I want to be clear that I do not think this is a bug, just something I don't understand.

Having said that I started with eight ships that killed five missile bases. I bombarded a few times, they built another missile base (And just a missile base) I auto-resolved and it wiped out all 8 ships. This happened twice on two different planets. The first time I had 6 ships I think? They could have been damaged but they each had 4 neutron pellet guns and 4 grav beams.

I can't tell if this is just because the auto-resolve is always suboptimal or if I was missing something obvious. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced similar things?