Fighter Strategies

[Tnargversion2]

Interesting and fun battle to watch. I just had a battle in which my fighters set to an Air Superiority Strategy and my attack fighters set to an Attack Fighter Strategy. The air superiority fighters behaved I guess like you would expect an air superioty fighter would behave taking out all of the fighters weaving in and out heading one direction finishing off some fighters that broke through, then turning around to seek out some new fighters. Very fun they were all over the place and some good looking dogfights. All the while my attack fighters kept steadfast and true with their goal of taking out the larger vessels with standoff weapons.

For my air superority fighters I set their strategy to:
Targeting Priority Order:
Target Type
Has Undamaged Weapons
Least Damaged
Fastest
Nearest (absolute)

Target Type Order:
Fighter Engage Point Blank 100%
All others off

The only bummer was that I did this in the simulator so the enemy fighters had the same strategies whereas in real tactical combat in the game the fighters would assume their default strategies.

[thebigsilly]

I'm kind of confused about fighters - what's the real use of them? I tried to use some fighters in my own game, and they all die so fast that it seems like it would've been more worthwhile to just have a few extra regular-sized ships.

[Tnargversion2]

A handful of fighters usually don't last long, but if you have a carrier's complement worth, 40 or more they do wonders.