5 Carriers versus 2 Starbases

[Nitram Draw]

Put a Sat with a high level sensor on the other side of the WP. Keep your fighters on the planets until you see someone coming then launch them.
Also, later in the game when the AI has a lot of minesweepers you may find that mines lose their effectiveness, you can replace the mines with fighters.

[ZeroAdunn]

What's the deal with fighters being luanched with no movement? That really kills the idea of using fighters for system wide defense, they should launch with movement equall to the object that launched them, or in the case of a base or planet, full movement.

[Nitram Draw]

Fighters only have no movement the turn they are launched, your guess is as good as mine as to why. After that they can move normally.

[Jubala]

Could be because of simultaneous movement. In turnbased movement it would be possible to launch and move the fighters at once, but not with simultaneous movement as the fighters won't be there to be given move orders until the next turn. SO to keep things equal they can't move after launch in turnbased either.

[Will]

Which is why you keep one fighter over a planet. Once you launch the rest, they have all their movement