60 ships is not much to use to be defeating 150 ships of any reasonable sort, really. You have to use roughly equal numbers, or your examples become flawed.
If you are going to be using lots of missiles, you can easily be defeated by using extra PDCs. PDCs destroy many missiles in much less space. Remember that they can fire every round and missiles can only fire every 3 rounds. So, 2 PDC, which take less space than 1 missile, can effectively counter 6 missile launcher components (as there are almost always missiles flying about each round). The fact that hte PDC fire before the missiles ever have a chance to hit the targets makes PDC even more overwhelming against missiles.
Retrofitting a few dozen ships to have extra PDCs when I find out that you are using missiles is not very expensive, and can be done by the SYS and repair ships that go with every fleet our in the field.
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It never misses (reduces the value of figs and missiles).
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Yes it does miss. Not very often, but it does happen. 1% to miss means about 1 out of every 100 shots miss. It hits nearly all the time, yes. But to say that it never misses is wrong. 
[ February 26, 2003, 11:26: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]