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First. It wasn't seven Cougars, so can we stop pretending it was? At peak, there were four or five. The others were Lynxes - full hullbuster Lynxes, in all likelihood - which obviously wouldn't target a capital ship if there are (half) a dozen snubcraft to deal with at the same time.
I personally ran out of Cruise Disruptors just trying to keep all the feeding capitals (including BlackWidow's here) put. LNS-Illustrious (or BlackWidow) was the very first to feed, and immediately attempted to cruise off (and restock, obviously). By the time he gave up on doing so, another four or five capitals had arrived on the LN / Bretonian side. Obviously he didn't have to run and restock anymore given how horribly outnumbered the GRN side was by that point.
Now, again, I kind of enjoyed going spartan on ten or so capitals (and an equal number of smaller ships) in Leeds. Raids aren't a bad thing. But when you already outnumber your opponent by such a giant margin, is it truly necessary to also deny them the ability to kill anything by simply feeding for an eternity?
If the answer to this is "Yes", then.. well, I did think BAF| was above that kind of play. Any house Navy should be. Any official faction, really. Pulling the "your indies do it too" argument is childish at best - we're not complaining about LNS or HMS indies here either.