Re: [FT] Help Requested: Mixed FB1/FB2 Ship Designs

There might be something to be said for the system defence fleet to
emphasize expendables and kinetic weapons.  I'd also toy with giving
them
fighters earlier than fleet 1.

I think between salvo missiles, scatter guns, submunition packs, MT
missiles, small kinetic guns, mines and vapour shrouds / sand casters,
you'd
have a reasonably efficient non-energy weapon fleet.  I'd aim for
thrusts of
4 to 6, 30 to 40% hull and 10 to 20% armour (less with sand casters), in
a
ratio of perhaps 1:2.