Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Ralzakark

Repair it also - think if it was changed in a recent patch, but it used to be that even with a single point of damage ships would avoid combat.

But it's probably the low fuel level.

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Do you send special forces in first, by themselves to take down defensive structures, or do they go in as part of a larger force?

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Can anyone confirm this? Playing with the latest patch and I have a ship that keeps fleeing, and it has only one armor component damaged.

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ORIGINAL: Aeson

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Do you send special forces in first, by themselves to take down defensive structures, or do they go in as part of a larger force?

Depends on how much effort you want to expend on managing your transports to ensure that the special forces go in first. I don't feel that it's worth the bother to keep the special forces on their own transports or in a separate group of ships. I would suggest that your special forces are much more likely to survive if you send them in with a big group against a well-garrisoned world than if you don't, but whether or not that matters really depends on what you wanted to accomplish with them.

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Can anyone confirm this? Playing with the latest patch and I have a ship that keeps fleeing, and it has only one armor component damaged.

If your ship is low on shields, it has most likely hit its flee trigger, as ships are normally set to flee when their shields fall below 20% of maximum strength. Ships will also typically attempt to flee from opponents which are well beyond their weight class, so that size-300 frigate with 70 firepower and 200 shields will likely run away from that size-800 pirate capital ship with 300 firepower and 1000 shields even if the frigate is undamaged and has full shield strength since your frigate is clearly outmatched.

It's not really an answer to your question, but it's something to check on before blaming the ship's damaged status for making it abnormally eager to run.

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It was then that my ship refused to go back and 'finish the job', and would flee a second or two after I gave the attack order, aimed at a derelict (no weapons or defense) mining station.

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ORIGINAL: Aeson

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It was then that my ship refused to go back and 'finish the job', and would flee a second or two after I gave the attack order, aimed at a derelict (no weapons or defense) mining station.

The description of your issue makes it very likely, in my opinion, that you're having fuel issues. Does the ship describe its mission as "escape from (target's name)," or does it say "refueling at (nearby refueling point)?" You can see what the ship's current mission is by looking at the text just under its name in the selection details box in the lower-left corner of the screen (in the screenshot given in this thread, you can see that the Scarlet Banshee's current mission is "Attack Scarlet Firestorm.") It's rather unlikely that a disabled mining station would be threatening enough to trigger any of the retreat conditions on any ship, though I suppose it's possible that it for some reason wants to repair a single armor plate badly enough to cancel your attack order.

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Sorry, I should have also told you, nearly fully fueled. That why I was so puzzled, as I did check all of the 'usual' suspects. In the mission box it clearly states that it is fleeing from the almost destroyed mining station.