Confused by Combat

I just finished a 1.6 DA game where the drengin created the most powerful medium hulled ships I'd seen thus far.

They were
attack 186 / 0 / 0
defense 3 /0 / 3
26 hit points

They had racial bonuses of ~80% weapons and ~60% defense, but that is already factored into the ship stats, right?

These ships were almost always used to guard planets.

I created a medium hulled ship
attack 226 / 0 / 0
defense 0 / 0 / 0
28 hit points

to counter them. Using the tie rule, I would expect both ships to blow each other up if they were singletons, but my ship to survive since it had more attack. I tried 3 or 4 times each week, for 3 weeks (reloading for the multiple attempts each week) to attack their singletons with my singletons, each time the enemy ship destroyed mine, and was left with ~8 hit points left.

What happened? Each of my ships was equipped with 7 doom rays. Neither side had a luck bonus.
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Hi!
Can you turn on full battles and check with battle viewer to gather more data? Maybe game still "thinks" drengin's ship is stronger? Maybe defenses are counted into the "tie" equation as hit points?   

IMO that's more a question for the developers than for us players.

BR, Iztok