Mothership Workings?

[Darkalbino_]

From the Rules:

Mothership: Having a mothership can add to your attack and defence action but is only calculated at the time of battle, since the amount it can help is determined by both your, and your enemies, mothership. If the enemy has no mothership, your mothership weapon action is directly added to your strike or defence action, to a maximum of your total strike or defence action. If both sides have a mothership, the amount added is: Your mothership offence minus their mothership defence minus their mothership offence. In all cases your mothership will use its weapons to destroy first their mothership shields, then their mothership weapons, and finally - if you have any mothership attack left - it will add to your troops attack or defence. This is true of both sides. So - in short - you can stop an enemry motherhsip with enough shields/weapons on your mothership with shields obviously being more effective at stopping the attack. The more weapons you have on your mothership, the better chance you have at beating down their mothership and helping your troops. Shields do nothing for your troops, but do a lot to protect your mothership from enemy mothership weapons. See calculations for how damage is calculated.

My attack Log:

***** ** ******* uses its Nuclear Volley to inflict **,038,532,000 damage, destroying 319 Energy Shields on Love hurts!
The Mothership has exhausted all of its offensive power.

Love hurts uses its Energy Volley to inflict ***,420,000,000 damage, destroying 249 Energy Shields on ***** ** *******!
Blowing through the extended shield defenses, it also destroyed 426 Nuclear Volley, and downed 1 fleets!

The Mothership has exhausted all of its offensive power.

My question is, why didnt my mothership provide any extra defence action when it inflicts more then 80 bil damage than his, surely it should have, unless he had 80bil worth of shields on his?

[Lore]

Both MS were exhausted.

What happens is it post the damage going through the def sheilds. Then it hits the weapons with whats left. You didnt have enough to continue on to the ground troops.

[Tanith]

Lore said it right, and this is more suited for the Newbie section.

As such, moved.