Don't believe there were. I've had this happen many times in Gal Civ II, where the combat screen never came up and combat was resolved like fleet versus one ship combat.
I followed an enemy fleet and caught up to it when it stopped at its rally point. When I attacked, there was not a fleet versus fleet battle, but it was my fleet versus one enemy ship at a time at the rally point. I had to attack multiple times before destroying the fleet. I don't know if the rally point affected the way combat was handled or not, because a later fight at a different enemy rally point proceeded normally. I
Is the ultra-terraformer supposed to be only one use, because currently it can be used multiple times?
during the game
I've had the game crash to desktop several times when I try to load a saved game. Also, I can see enemy rally points.
They should at least have to vote on it every time the UP meets and have a reasonable max limit like 10 colonies.
The Krynn voted in the Environmental Protection Act after only 4 colonies and over 150 turns into the game is still in effect. Not fun.