Well. Lessons learned from this battle.
FACs suck. Never building them again, they all died without achieving anything every time I have used them.
I lost almost my entire fleet. Lost all my crack ships (no medals for this, everyone is fired, I dont care if its mostly my fault, my crew did not do their job which did not help in the end).
Dont use 1 day or 5 day time increments to close. Your fleet WILL move faster then you think, they WILL be ON TOP of the enemy ships at the end of the time increment, they WILL NOT shoot ANYTHING until the fleet is nearly destroyed.
I did win. I lost 14 of around 20 ships. I do not have the minerals at the moment to replace that. All those experienced crews are dead (mostly). I am scrapping every last ship of that fleet, deleting the ship class including the heavy cruiser class despite how well it actually worked. It was over for the Adams class missile cruiser anyway, I was only keeping them because of the crew experience, now they are all dead and I dont want to be reminded of that disaster.