here is the whole battle so to see

3815 Bombers
26641 Fighters
5000 Soldiers
110000 Droids
1150 Transports    1 weeks    xx,xxx:x (player) (XXXX)

Ground against air 
The attacking forces were relieved when they didn't have to fight any laser turrets
Airfight 
5 bombers crashed from defending fighters
33 fighters lost dogfights against the defending fighters
2 transporters didn't manage to hide from the defending fighters
93 defending fighters were shot down by the attacking air forces
You started the fight with 1150 transporters, but only 1148 made it to the ground.
9 soldiers died trapped in those transports
192 droids lies wrecked in those crashed transports
The final phase, groundfight
149 attacking soldiers ate lead from the defenders
3282 attacking droids malfunctioned
840 soldiers died in the fight to defend the planet
5218 droids failed in their program to defend the planet
0 soldiers died on the planet they were stationed to defend
0 stationed droids failed in their program to defend the planet
Attacker win!

We caught the empire on surprise, they probably did not expect an attack from an empire by a size so close to theirs. This did not give them any chance to destroy the buildings.

clearly 1 of the soldier is extremely fat so he was in the transport with only 98 other units. the 2 skinnier soldiers happened to be put into 1 of the transports that got shot down the one that carried 101 units total.

One soldier on one of the surviving transports saw that his gay lover (don't ask, don't tell) was in one of the transports that got shot down, and quietly killed himself before the transports landed.

But which one have we accepted as the standard explanation?

One of the transports was really a transformer and doubled as a droid also?

the 9th soldier was Bin Laden, you would still believe it