Affectiveness of FSE BDN?

Played at lunch yesterday against NAC and really felt my BDN
was extremely inaffective.

My side:

FSE BDN
FSE CH
FSE DS (Super Destroyer).

Opponents

NAC CVL
2xNAC Escort Cruiser (CE?)

The CVL sat back out of the combat most of the game, leaving me
the 2 CE's to fight.  I managed to put all SML's on target every
time, but 2 interceptors and ADFC on the CE's made this pointless.
As far as affectiveness went I felt the CH was much more affective
than the BDN as it had 2 SML launchers, 2 on the BDN and I could
probably have saturated defenses and landed a few missles.  My
opponent apparently agreed as he targetted my CH with all his fighters.

(I was running interceptors, they took out one group of his fighters
dieing in the process.)

Oh, for those that don't want fighters but think you need them to
deal with fighters, notice that 1 fighter group == _9_ PDS as far
as space is concerned, and PDS don't die in dogfights.

Roger Books