[douglas]

LACs and missile pods could be implemented quite well as fighters and possibly drones, though I'm not too sure how well drones would work as missile pods. You'd either have missile pods that can move on their own, or you'd have the AI launching them all at the beginning of combat and having them sit there, hoping someone would stray too close.

The biggest problem with trying to make an HH mod is the EW capabilities the series makes such a big deal of. In the books, ECM can work wonders against a volley of missiles, missiles themselves can carry jammers and such to play hell with enemy PD fire control, and EW drones can actually fool enemies into thinking you have more/fewer/stronger/weaker ships than you actually do. In SEIV, ECM is irrelevant against missiles, missiles have a flat across the board defense bonus in settings.txt that technology can't change, and EW drones simply aren't possible. You could try fixing the ECM issues with missiles by using drones instead, but aside from the issues of how to make non-ramming drones one-shot items and the impossibility of dedicated ECM drones helping nearby drones avoid shots, that would make fighters unusable as LACs or missile pods because units can't have cargo.