Do Small DUCs suck?

[Nethog]

Both the Cryslonites and my fighters (Terran) were grouped in 5's. Neither the Cryslonites nor my fighters had ECM or Combat sensors, just the standard small fighter compnents, engines, and weapons as indicated in my original post below. By the way I am using SEIV v1.35. I went back and used a save game to replay the battle several times and have concluded that the fighter/fighter hit chance *does* appear to be the same for my fighters and the Cryslonites. The first time I did the battle I had a few escort class ships mixed in with my fighters (which when look almost identical in tactical mode using Terran), so I mistakingly thought that the Cryslonite fighters were hammering my fighters butts.

HOWEVER, one thing that IS clear to me is that the hit chance for small fighters at a range of 1 is still *very* low making small fighter/small fighter battles unnecessarily
tedious IMHO. The game displays "1%" for my fighters for a hit chance, however I think that the hit chance is actually a little higher. But most of the battle between the fighters is spent watching each fighter miss each other. Has anyone else experienced this or agree with this?

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Nethog