Not sure if this is a bug or something that was suppose to happen.
I accidentally released robot guards in some ruins I was converting, and they wiped out my small military I had in place, this happened in one foul swoop, the city surrendered also, which in turn said my transport ships in orbit surrendered or so the log said. But what happened was the transport ships did not surrender they split from the main taskforce, and made individual task forces and the original task force was still there. I was able to control them and use them. So I lost none of my ships.
The other interesting thing , is the assault force was three robot guardian assault brigades, they knocked out 1 armour and 1 assault brigade and 2 engineer brigade in 1 battle. But I went back with 2 armoured and 1 assault and 1 mobile infantry lost only 3% of troops in one brigade in removing them over a month of fighting.
For me the numbers do not add up, If they were so powerful to knock over the defenders so quickly, how come they were incapable of defencding a slighly larger force. I think steve need to revisit ground combat numbers.
one other thing was there was 100,000 colonist left on the planet, the robot guardians killed the rest, but when I came back and took over the colony again, which was only in a month. The colony still said vanquished then moved in subjugated, since these were robot guardian I imagine all of them dead and this is the original colonies who are human. They should be classified as liberator or atleast go back to the original setting for the colony.