Attacking Planets (or trying not to)

[Dan C.]

I seem to be having a problem with the game, and I don't know if it is a bug or just me.
I had two fleets, one of 70 fighters and one of several lt. Cruisers. I wanted to destroy the ships guarding a planet the turn before my ground forces arrived. So I created a strategy "Ignore Planet". I sent the fighters in the first wave. They made straight for the planet and bombed it (as well as taking out one ship on the way), then I moved the cruisers in, and then everyone seemed to ignore the planet. (but the situation was different)

The strategy was "Maximum range, Drop Troops (if any)", Has weapons, Nearest, Largest, Most Damaged. I turned on Use type and placed planet at the bottom of the list, I checked don't fire on planets (as well as bases/ships w/o weapons), unselected planets from break formation. The fleet was set to this as well as the fighter default strategy. (I put in drop troops, as I wanted to use it for the fleet with the troop transport as well)

With all this the planet was only 19% damaged The fighters actually moved though the defender's formation to go to the planet (i.e. the enemy ships were encountered half-way and a running battle was fought moving to the planet)
What did I do wrong??