Punishing One bug

In it's unique, it states that if all allies are bounty hunter (excluding capital ship) that allied bounty hunter attackers will start the battle with 100% protection up - yet I've fought against 7 star executors with 4/4 reinforcements and they still get the bonus protection up - based on the fact that there's only 7 bounty hunter ships, the forth reinforcement can't be bounty hunter and therefore the unique is bugged