Combat in S4k

[Llama8 8]

How does combat work in S4k? I'm used to Ogame where you need large quantities of fodder to protect your big guns (be they Plasma Canon or Destroyers), but I don't know whether that's the case in S4k.

 

Plus, how do the "C_Text_Modifier" values affect this?

 

Edit: This thread appears to answer the first question (basically, the ships at the top of the CR take damage first & the damage done works it's way down, except when a ship has a special modifier for another ship, which it then attacks first).