Are battles always one sided?

[Rich04]

I never said they repaired during combat Dragonlord.
What was happening was my 30 ship fleet engaged a 50 ship fleet with enough repair ships to repair 40+ components each turn. Every time my fleet engaged they were wiped out without inflicting any losses or even slowing the opposing fleet. This happened 3 turns in a row. My ships even had the edge tech wise. Each engagement disabled a dozen or more enemy ships. If they had finished them off the attacking fleet would have been whittled down each turn rather than total blowouts. I might have won the second engagement and if not for sure the third one for by then 'I' would have had the larger fleet.