Rules: Removing transports in combat when all ships are destroyed

[SeismicAssault]

I’ve got another rules question that came up during our game … if all the non-transport ships are destroyed simultaneously during a round of combat, do the transports survive?  The case we had is that a cruiser and two transports were attacked by a single cruiser.  Both cruisers rolled hits, so they were removed as casualties.  We deemed that the transports survived … thoughts?

[Witt]

Afternoon SeismicAssault.
You were both right to not remove the Transports.
The attacker has to have a unit left to hit the Transports and he did not.

[SeismicAssault]

@wittmann:

Afternoon SeismicAssault.
You were both right to not remove the Transports.
The attacker has to have a unit left to hit the Transports and he did not.

Thanks!  I was pretty sure that’s the way it went, but wanted to make sure.