[Spaceships] Under what tech assumptions Space Fighters make sense?

[Pomphis]

Originally Posted by JAW

Of course a heavy FTL drive that's useless in combat makes carrier/fighter combination good too. Fighters that don't carry FTL engines of their own then become much more efficient combat crafts that ships with their own FTL usually are.

But that doesn´t have to mean fighters. It may also mean battletenders and battleriders as in Traveller.