I've been curious as to what the actual number of kills required to win BS is. So, I took a BS mission from the very beginning today and let my comp sit on through the whole thing. After the mission had finished, I went through my mission logs and tallied the kills. I counted 181 kills for Serco and 174 kills for Itani. The strange thing is that the Itani won. I'm positive I had the mission from the very beginning because I flew through an empty B12 immediately before taking the mission.

If the mission counts only losses and not kills, then the Itani actually lost 185 ships and the serco lost 176 due to friendly fire kills. Still doesn't explain how Itani won though.

all the devs play itani ;)

Thanks for the report!

I fixed a bug that was causing some destruction-related messages not to be sent today. I suspect that it was the cause of this inconsistency. I'm fairly sure that the loss-accounting itself couldn't be broken in that way, and it has always been accurate when I've tested it with smaller numbers (so as not to take an hour per test), but I'm keeping an eye on it in the Hive-Skirmish mission which uses the same mechanism.

Capships in BS are still red to everyone. Majority of them die to friendly fire but not before they kill a friendly teradon or two.