' Wrote:Em, as from what I red its written that escorts job is not protect trader in a fight, but not allow the pirate to engage the transport. Not allow him to go in contact to start actually blasting it. And you are writing that fighters can't take bomber fast enought (they can, if you are skilled enough, and your trader guy is not total nub) until it finished off thet rader. The point is not to allow the pirate bomber to go in contact, so you do not need to hurry it shooting while it fires snac's :rtfm:
if the fight has started, and the pirate is close enough, 3 fighters can blast away and still not be able to prevent the pirate's bombing runs on the trader. it's basically the same discussion as with battleships and escorts vs a bomberwing.
escorts can be effictive, if they manage to avoid a fight by warning the trader or blowing up the pirate before their escortee even gets there.