You're not going to share details of your ugly defeats?

What's a "CT"?

You could move them around in 20 groups of 5... *shrug*

The "death by a thousand cuts" approach has been used before, and to good effect. You are assured of killing a single 500-point ship, or a pair of 250-pointers, but against any reasonably-balanced opponent, I am more pessimistic.

But then, I've been wrong before.

In a nutshell, in an effort to investigate fighter balance, we each created 2 550 point fleets, one with and one without fighters, and randomly matched them up.

In the first battle, I used a 250 pt BC with stealth, one spinal mount a single very large A battery ( ignores shields, increased damage) and sevaral smaller guns.

The rest of the fleet consisted of a CA with fairly good defenses, a glass cannon DD with a nasty gun and no shields, and 4 Corvettes for anti figher duty.

My opponents fleet was 2 CL sized (hull6) carriers with 2x spinal mounts, stealth and 3 small figher flights each. (1 int, 2 bomber), and a small escort (hull4?)

Long range fire destroyed 3 of the escort corvettes and heavily damaged  the Cruiser.  My BC missed consistently, only hitting once - as the a battery was getting destroyed.

We called the game after 5 turns, with all 4 of my escorts and my cruiser space dust, the BC damaged adn surrounded by `12 fighters.   Both Carriers were heavly damaged, and the escort was destroyed.

I should have taken sunbursts. But I knew that.