Question about general strategy: missles vs. fighters vs. drones vs. direct fire, etc

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:

Always design your fighters to move with your fleets... Not to speed out and be destroyed before your fleet shows up. This way they will be involved in the fight at the same time your seekers hit and your Main DF Ships come into play.

So then the question is. How do you design your carriers? I find that if you make your carriers so that they carry large numbers of fighters then the carrier will run for the corner and laucnch fighters every turn, spreading the fighters out and making them much easier to deal with. Are you saying that you should design your carriers so that they launch all of their fighters in one turn? That would make sense with combining carrier/minesweeper, carrier/supply, carrier/repair ship, etc.