Fighters! What are they good for?

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Has anybody tried this fighter strategy?

Build massive amounts of your favorite fighters in a border system, Pre-invasion time. When the time is rightmove them to the wormholes and use carriers/transports to drop them on the other side. (after the wormhole defenses are taken care of)

Instead of tying up your carriers in the fleet they can keep dumping fighters into the front lines.

If you really like micromanagement you can have a string of fighters moving from ALL your colonies towards a front line.

Carriers strictly become Ferries (don't need a lot of engines or weapons or armor)

I have not tried this vs a human opponent yet, but it certainly overwhelms the AI's.

It really helps keeping the big warships in one piece while the unused colony build queues pump out the fighters.

Just a thought.

RhineStone Cowboy