Got myself into a fight. Was just starting to feel confident as I was killing everything they had with missiles from range. Taskgroup was one jump cruiser, 3 missile cruisers and a destroyer with laser PD. Killing all but one of their ships before running out of missiles. Well, business as usual, let's move in and finish it off with the lasers from my destroyer.
Wham! WTF? They obviously have a new ship-ship missile since last time, too fast for my PD and anti-missiles. Suddenly I'm the one in trouble against that single Alien ship. Especially since the first ship they kill is my jump cruiser, I'm now stuck in the system and they have a slight speed advantage.
There is some chaos as I try dealing with the missile salvos. They get all my missile cruisers, eventually only the destroyer alive. And that is with no armor, no engines and no missile sensor left. It seems they ran out of missiles and are now closing in. The crew is working frenetically and manage to get one of the engines operational again. I'm worried they might have shorter range anti-missiles and finish me off with those, but nothing happens. Now they are not closing as fast as before, our lasers have a range advantage and they did eat a few of my missiles earlier.
I'm starting to score hits every 10 seconds, not much but they are adding up. And finally, boom, we got them. My damaged destroyer is now limping along alone picking up survivors among the wrecks of all the larger ships while hoping the next ship jumping into the system will be one of ours..