1.3.0.3 - Randomly losing assault pods / boarding strength

[PeteAce]

I found that ships with assault pods have gone randomly missing while on attack missions. No raid, no capture.

Please see screenshots below for an example. All I did was order to attack a ship, then I see my fleet's boarding assault strength start reducing in numbers in fleet view. I noticed the ships close to the mining base lose their assault pods first. Capture Condition Policy for the ships and bases are set to Never. I also did not visually see any assault pods launching.

I also found this is happening to troop transport fleet as well, where all I did was to move to close to a planet to prepare for an invasion, then some of the transport ships lose their pods for no reason thus preventing from launching the invasion.

Any idea what's causing it or is it a known bug? Thanks.

Before attack

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After attack

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[MaximKI]

That's certainly weird - do you have a save you could share that reproduces the issue?

[PeteAce]

I have attached the save file.
To reproduce the issue, select 1st strike force fleet and attack an enemy ship. I find that the further away the targeted enemy ship, the more pods the fleet loses. While targeting the one closest such as the 'Bitter Conqueror' may not lose any.
Thanks for your attention.

[MaximKI]

Thanks, we'll investigate.