>Heh. Actually, I see something else too, Gryph. When a Robotech
>vessel is engaged with a starfleet vessel, it deploys its fighters.
>Between its secondary guns and its fighter cover, that starfleet
>vessel is going to find itself very roughly handled

Perhaps, but I haven't seen a starfighter yet whose shielding could stand up to a hit from a naval phaser, and once again the effectiveness of the missiles carried by the Legios line has been grotesquely overestimated. They're pipsqueak munitions by starship standards. Negligible. Like throwing a handful of gravel at a tank. I doubt an Alpha's missile payload could substantially damage a Constitution-class starship with its shields down. Tritanium is strong stuff.

--G.
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