Enemy capital ship always going first?

"Stokat;c-1578197" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1578190" wrote:
Since your speed is 152 and they are 153, yes the other ship will always go first, without some sort of TM manipulation.

If you fight a mirror where they are 152 also, then RNG will decide.

Yes I get that, but in this last fight his Thrawn didn’t have any of his abilities zetad so he shouldn’t have been faster than mine, I should have been faster than him. I haven’t looked at all the other Thrawns in every fight but it seems a bit unlikely that they all have been completely maxed or that rng would have made them go first in every single fight.

Should have been faster or the same speed?

Define "every single fight", because 50/50 is not hard to get a coin to flip the same side up in a small sample size.

I can say with 100% certainty, if no TM manipulation is involved. These 3 things are true:
1) the faster ship will go first.
2) the slower ship will go after the faster one
3) RNG decides the the tie when the ships have the same speed

I have gone 3 attacks where I went first the first move on the same person, but the opponent won the coin toss on the ultimate turn. I have had strings of never going first, i have had strings of always going first. It may happen in streaks, but in the end it's all 50/50.