I can only say how I deal with some RPS issues for -my- fleets... what I didnt upload with the Wyan is the fleet support ships.. read 'Torpedo Resupply Ships'.

I keep a big pile of BV-mostly-neutral 'alternate loads' for the torpedo tubes, some AOE, some inverted range based damage, etc.  Nothing so far as to be customizing a fleet against a given foe, but enough to reflect 'Hey, were on the bugswarm front, so we have AOE ammo' logical mentality.

Granted, fighters and strikers and seekers (though noone much uses seekers) ignore evasive action (why?  We dont know why.  Its like ignoring ECM, or applying to-hit penalties to certain weapons.  Fighters are made of magic in every space battle game they appear in.  But thats a different soap box).  However, one can design anti-fighter weapons to fire through the penalties, or just bring enough interceptor style fighters of your own to deal with it.

And Beowulf.. you don't have to redesign your navy.  I find it can be more rewarding to spend at least -some- time working out a tactical response to a tactical problem, rather than engineering a response to every perceived imperfection.  If you swap out your screens for shields, you'll find your navy better against being swarmed (or AOE over-the-shoulder shots), but much worse at the 'holding range open and keeping shields maxed' game their designed to play.

That said, a more generalist design might be something you find more fun to play.

And yes, One-shot weapons oddly enough work better on large, barrage boat hulls than on small strike boat hulls.  This is (logically) because the idea is that larger hulled boats, lasting longer, would get less relative value out of the ability to throw everything at the foe on the first round in range.

Unfortunately, the impact is to encourage 'refitted cargo ships' full of missiles, rather than the more fluffy missile armed strikeboats.  (though a bunch of CR25 strike boats, armed with a nasty missile AND A POPGUN, can be awesome.  The popgun, IMHO, is vital, as it keeps them a threat even after they shoot, complicating the opponents targeting choices)

For me, most of my ships/fleets that I am designing is for campaign play and as such, you want a fairly 'balanced' fleet.  The rules for R&D in the campaign system that I use are fairly slow and if I take a really specialized fleet and find a race with the perfect counter, my empire is in shambles (if there at all) before I can re-tool my ships to fight off the foe.

I guess in the end, if both players 'agree' to building fleets using whatever rules and the like and you are enjoying yourselves in the process, who am I to argue...

-Bren

I cant wait to see them posted, Beowulf.

I will be down in South Florida in the middle of June for c10 days.  I guess my leaner, shielded ships will be facing the BattleStar Galactica.  0r perhaps some Cylons. 
I cannot post my ships here in Drake Notation, because the one minor flaw in Gaming Glenn's excellent shipdesigner program is that the Drake Notation dosen't work properly.  But I can accurately describe one of them: 8)

USS Mississippi,  CR=980;  Hull=14, Engines=6, Shields=4
Main Battery is 14 Inch Plasma Guns;
Range=30, ROF=1, Acc=3+, Imp=1, Dmg=2  w/ Piercing;
Battery X = 6x[GHIJK]     
Battery Y = 6x[HIJKL];
Special = Hyperdrive + Armor Plating + AF batteries + etc...

Just like the WW2 Battleship USS Mississippi, but not a complex design
My fleet also has DDGs that carry strikers and will have a ship or two with an Area-Of-Effect weapon. I will call them the volcano class. :shock:

I have found that if my ships with their range 30 weapons are faster than the opponants, they can have several turns of fire without having to endure return fire.  This also allows me to slow hostile fighters can close, which allows for more AA fire...

Where did you get the models from?  I'm very curious to know since I need to add some 'in scale vipers' to my BSG models I got from Walmart.

Thanks!
-Bren