A word on fleet power: unlike character battles, fleets have reinforcements. Capital ships get between 1 and 4 extra ships they can put out during the battle, and those reinforcements count toward the total power of the fleet. But in many battles, only 1 reinforcement (or none) is ever used, so the fleet power can overestimate the actual power of the fleet, depending on the power of the reinforcements. The fleet power shows you that the reinforcements are there, but it doesn’t show you what they are or which will actually be deployed. There’s some guesswork involved. This is why it’s possible to win against what seems like a numerically superior fleet or lose when a reinforcement you didn’t expect shows up with a devastating ability.
