The only thing that I can see would be in points...since fighters aren't "pointed" the carrier includes the cost in itself. Flotilla ships do have a point cost so, you would have to either have a house rule that omitted that when including them on carriers, or you are basically getting overcharged for their services. However, some might let that stand anyway figuring that it is the price that must be paid for bringing along the bigger ships.
Anyway, that's just my thought.
Erik

A stopgap measure could be to use a new sort of auxiliary service to model the space requirement to carry flotillas

This would be the best option, IMHO.

I just took a look at it. Very nice, I love the layout, very professional.

With those Tender rules how would you implement carrying a Flotilla? I love the idea of being able to ferry other starships with it, but would like to be able to use vanilla Flotillas in that role. Almost like carrying "super" fighters I guess. Of PFs for LACs whichever term works best.

The only thing I'm not sure about, is allowing externally carried ships to use their weapons. I feel that could become a bit munchkin.

I'm going to play tonight specifically to try out some Flotilla Tender options, and this is one I will be trying now. Thanks!

So in that case, sample V1 Destroyer Flotilla (6 ships; 186su) would cost 47 su for a ship to Tender?

Would this affect CRAT at all, or would you factor the 55 CRAT from the Flotilla in addition to the carrying vessel? As opposed to Carriers in which flights are calculated as part of the ships CRAT?

Ex. 100 pt Tender carrying 2 V1 DD Flotillas coming to a total of 194pts for the battle.

I'm liking that idea a lot. I'm going to try this tonight as stated.

I am going to add a bit about flotillas to the next version of the shipyard guide.

Been going over tenders in the guide and perhaps a couple of changes may be needed.
1) Effect of carried ship engine rating.
Change: If external, then the higher of the two (or more) engine ratings is used, so long as the ship with the
higher rating is at least hull size 2 and one third the SU of the ship that it is attached to.

2) If a carried ship is destroyed, the tender and any other ship/flotilla still attached take 1D6 Hull damage per Hull size of the destroyed ship.
In the case of flotilla ships destroyed while carried it is 1D6 hull damage per destroyed ship.

Anyone have thoughts on this?
Paul

In the VBAM/Starmada book: The Stars Divided: Terran Civil War, ships carried internally by a tender took a Capacity of their Hull size + 50% of their Hull size. It is a minor point, that needs to be settled by an arbitrary decision, whether this should have an additional cost in Space Units of 50% or 25%.

In the Starmada Compedium, there was a rule for towing vessels that should work just as well for composite vessels made of multiple Hulls. Multiply the Engine Value of each module by the Hull Size of that module, add the results for all modules with Engines, and divide by the sum of the Hull Sizes of all modules (including those without engines). This would give you the Engine Value for the Composite. Alternatively, you could consider the modules as components contained in a Hull whose size is large enough to contain them, sum the Space Unit cost for the Engines in all modules, and divide this (rounding down) by the Space Unit cost for a Engine for the containing Hull. This would also give a useful Engine Value for the composite.

In any case, Hold Capacity on a Tender should affect only the Space Unit cost. The Combat Rating  of the contents should have no effect on the Combat Rating of the Tender (which, if it is unarmed, might well be zero).

I played with the Tenders carrying Flotillas last weekend. I thought it worked well, just using the 25% su capacity requirement mentioned earlier in this thread. I used the Launch & Recovery rules with them to prevent spamming. Played three games with them and will definitely consider using them in a campaign.

It was in these 3 games, that I also found out that I don't like allowing the expanded accuracy, rof, imp, and dmg. My friend built a 10 hull ship with one weapon (RNG 18, ROF 6, ACC 2+, IMP 2, DMG 3) which made it to where my flotillas couldn't even get close. I found that ship to be way over powered despite only have 1 3 arc weapon.

Counter it with RNG 18 ACC 2+ Inverted Range Modifiers, and add counter measures to your ships.  You are then hitting on 2+ and he is looking for 4+.

I have found that for just about every weapon you can come up with there is a way to counter it, or you just use the same weapon and it is then just a case of who gets the best dice rolls.