Are battles always one sided?

[Askan Nightbringer]

Hello all,

I've been in a pbw game for a 100 turns or so (the longest I've ever played a SE game) and every battle seems to be a complete demolishment of one side with the other taking few casualties.
I don't believe there is much of a technology difference to warrant this but the 6 or so major battles I've been in have all been one sided.

Some examples of the battles have been

50 ships vs 50 ships yields one side destroyed, the other losing around 4 ships (plus they captured one for a net of 3)

30 vs 20 means no loss to the 30 and homeworld exposed for the other guy.

30 ships ambush 40, destroying all and taking no losses.

And the most recent one
35 ships, (mainly battle crusiers with PPBs and level 2 phased shields) get surprised by 101 ships, mainly cruisers (with quantom torpedoes and level 4 phased shields).
The result?
101 ships blown to smitherenes with a single battle cruiser lost on the other side and no other damage no any of the fleet.

To quote the defeated

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New estimates show that it takes approximately 100 Spoo ships to kill one People's ship.

Expense minister Mr. Big explaines this as "not exactly economical"
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Just wondering what other people's experience has been.
Does fleet/ship experience points have that much of a difference? If so ...yuk!

Askan