User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-1854594-20120718193300/@comment-4950455-20120720032322

I wasn't planning on responding to this again, but after some thought I do want to correct something: it's not at all true that we "never even see the fight". I'll be the first to say that the space battle of Earth was underdone (the ground one even more so, but that was never meant to be a stand-up fight at all, so it's not relevant to this discussion). But we do see it, several times, and from what we've shown it's pretty clear that the allied fleet isn't winning by a long shot. With the highest EMS possible, you do see a Reaper pretty badly damaged, but not so badly that it can't blow away a cruiser. Meanwhile, the allied fleet is clearly taking several casualties.

Certainly the fleet did a lot of damage - possibly even enough that, when added to the information we left behind, it'll guarantee the Reapers' defeat next cycle - but at no point was it shown as being anywhere close, no matter how high your EMS, to beating the Reapers in a stand-up fight.