SE3 weapons had different sizes.
"Ok, it may be that. It also may be that in my "Real World" test I neglected to play with the fleet arangments and see if that had any impact. I left all that default so both sides wer staying in a nice V formation. It may be that this skewed my results in favor of the APB since it had the larger fleet."
I didn't use ANY fleet formations

It was just one huge furball after another.
I don't use them in real games so I don't use them in sims. The only reason I even fleet my ships is experience and ease of movement.
Phoenix-D