Caps vs Fighters

[sovereign]

To expand on n00bl3t's facepalm...

I'm not convinced you've ever been in a full scale fleet engagement. The heavy warships slug at each other while bombers try to pick at them and turn the scale (or dramatically alter the outcome via skilled subtargeting... SNAC goes the mortar and all that), and fighters attempt to disrupt the bombers from doing so or go around pack-hunting gunboats. Gunboats disrupt fighters or bombers from doing their job, and cruisers hang off to the side lobbing things into the fray or chasing gunboats under certain circumstances. The different ship classes have very different jobs, but they are all connected. Failure to utilize your fighters properly means that even a handful of bombers will turn the tide in the cap battles, especially if they have novas. I could go on but I'm not sure I should bother.

They are most certainly not as separate as you believe them to be... at least, they don't have to be. If all shipclasses are present, then you will not end up with snubships fighting only snubships unless there is a problem between a lot of keyboards and a lot of chairs.

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