Defensively it's best to have one fighter per group. But
offensively it sucks. Especially if the enemy uses Emissive Armor!
You have to mass fighters together to get greater attack strength. I wish there was a way to re-organize fighters in the middle of combat after they've been launched. If you could launch in large Groups for the initial attack and then tell them to split into smaller Groups once the big targets are nearly destroyed and only smaller ships with lots of PDC are still around you'd have the best of both worlds.
[ July 29, 2002, 20:50: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]