[Fyron]

I do not see why people are so concerned about me making alleged blanket statements. Everyone does so.

Primitive, as long as you do not do something stupid like stop using PDCs, you can definitely defeat all but the most massive hordes of fighters. But that requires being attacked by a much larger fleet of ships, which would probably slaughter you anyways if they had just used warships in the first place. Fighters can be useful in the extreme early game, before PDC becomes prevalent, but once you start putting a few higher level PDC on all your ships, fighters fall easily in large numbers. Hence, nearly useless. There are only a very small number of game situations in which fighters are not totally useless. KOTH play is not representative of SE4 PBW in general, because it generally forces at least some the combat to be occuring in those early stages of the game, before you can stick 2-3 PDC Vs on each warship without losing a significant amount of hull space.