Re: balancing Fighters

I've been swamped by fighters once or twice when playing against an FSE
fleet,
but found that, as has been said before, a good combo of my own fighters
and my
ADFC systems can whittle them down to impotence pretty quickly.  The
best
(IMNSHO) defense against a fighter is really another fighter, although
(for those
of you who use the FB designs) certain fleets such as the NSL are
handicapped by
a relative lack of fighter support when compared to fleets such as the
FSE or
ESU.  For myself and my ESU fleet, I've found that a Konstantin backed
by a
couple of the Beijing-B ADFC variants will munch an FSE fighter strike
pretty
quickly, and the one I play against routinely throws 11 fighter
squadrons at me
all at once.

Mark

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

> I've also never had too much dificulty in dealing with fighters in FT.
I've
> found that just one escort with an ADFC can really mess up a
squadron's
> whole day.
>
> Now granted that I've never really dealt with really large groups of
> fighters (10+), but I would think that adding another escort or two
would
> solve that little problem.
>
> Yes, fighters are powerful, and seem daunting when you look at them
alone,
> but it's actually fairly difficult for them to get their damage on
target
> without being swatted fairly hard first.
>
> Schoon