[OT] SFB Fighter comment

I hear a few people piping up about how few 
fighters were out there or how they were only 
nuisance value. Holy smokes, but I must 
disagree. Federation F-14s from the CVA or a 
full carrier strike wing could majorly wreck 
things, especially if the flight included A-10 or A-
20 attack shuttles and had good drone 
loadouts. Not at all to be trifled with. I saw 
them wreck large fleets of capships. 

Of course, we often played in 20 cap ship 
survivor style melees or in fleet battles with 
2000-4000 points per side, sometimes with 3, 
4, 5 or even 6 sides. One turn has been known 
to take three hours :) 

I myself (an inveterate klingon player) preferred 
my larger fleets to have D6Ds, D7Ds (heavy 
missile armed cruisers) with very extensive and 
sophisticated drone mixes, a wrack of pseudo-
fighters (like Noam's stingboats) with warp 
packs and good drones, D7B and Cs with 
DERFACS for long range fire, and the 
occaisional cloakes hip or mauler. A nasty 
combination. 

But our Feds almost always took CVAs with CC 
and CAs as escorts and maybe a BC which had 
IIRC 8 photon launchers. 

And of course, we had Lyran players who loved 
to turn on ESGs and plow through the Kzinti 
fighter and drone waves.... 

To draw this vaguely back OT, any way to do 
warp packs for FT fighters or stingboats? I 
guess fast fighters cover that for the fighter 
side. For the stingboat, I'd go so far as to 
suggest an external mounting of a warp pack 
(ie doesn't eat internal space) which adds (say, 
to be arbitrary) 50% to your thrust value. The 
downside is your engines make threshold tests 
at -1 (more likely to fail) and ONE engine hit 
destroys the entire main drive. I don't know 
how I'd point this.... maybe some FT player 
might have suggestions/alternatives/criticisms?

Tomb Raider. 
Whose greatest SFB moment was annihilating a 
Fed CC at range 4 after he missed a narrow 
salvo of all his overloaded photons....