hello

the prob with the small ships ( i'm assuming ave, weak hulls) is that
just a 
little damage will really ruin its day.
For an extreme my Cloaking SDN has 4 FCS and 20 class 2 beams. That
means it 
can take out approx 4 snowflakes a turn. And if timed right the cloak
negates 
the SML strike. (The fighters hang around so tend to give a little more
trouble 
since 6 pds is a tad low for a SDN)

Since you like fighters and SML's you might want to keep you small SML/R
ships 
and add some  heavy to battle cruiser size ships with SML's and either
beams or 
p-torp backup.
Since one of my regular opponents is fighter crazy (has a cyclon fighter
base, 
and enough fighter models to fully equip it 300 fighters!!) i tend to go
a 
little over on the PDS, ADFC so you need to experiment to the level of
your 
opposition.

As a tactic note try running the fleet down one/both sides of you oppo
and use 
the 180 angle of the launchers to blunt his nose when/if they turn
towards the 
fleet. And if they dont you genrally have a nice shot at the tail of the
fleet.

Hope it helps
Graeme
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why build big ships ?? I have been decimating the other players with
small
20 and 30 ton vessels armed with SML and ER missles or just loaded with
fighter bays ?? at about 100 per ships I get about 8 for every large
ship
they bring in so I hit them with either 8 salvos of SML or 16 squadrons
of
fighters what gives here is it something we are missing or.....maybe our
ships arent designed well any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Clarence