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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo
See, the problem here is that if your figheers have to slow down to engage...having a fighter screen is impossible. As all the enemy has to do is gun their engines, and zip past dog fighting range and move in for the kill on your capitol ships.
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Not if the fighters are using high-speed missiles or energy/beam weapons.
A capital ship is vulnerable to both at any speed, unless of course it moves out of range to use its weapons against an opposing force.
There is also the problems involved in ship-to-ship combat where one force tries to continually out maneuver the other.
Using your example, if the opposing ship attempts to evade, then the defending vessel could easily keep fighters in reserve to serve as a defensive group. Also, if your fighters are as fast as the types in Yamato, then it stands to reason that evading them would be difficult since your warship will still have to slow down to attack at some point.