Are fighter/bomber squadrons usefull?

[W4RP!G [CZ]]

I feel like the damage they provide is very low. Atleast judging by numbers.

fully loaded mothership (with regular weapons) has atk rating around 15k+, while if loaded by fighters and bombers it barely reaches 7,5k for me... lesser ships feel similarly underpowered.

This kinda kills this whole customization brach for me... I would like to make carriers but game is litteraly throwing me sticks under me legs :-/

[talemore]

Able to attack from any flotilla. You're right. Bombers do less damage than missiles and kinetic is allowed to attack squadrons. Even worse is that your weapon strength reduce when squadrons are destroyed, a ship must be destroyed to remove its capabilities or reduced by support weapons. In early to mid game and sometimes even late game( based on the case that weapons you pick is a choice and each support need resources) you won't see the advantages of squadrons, most of them are depending on unique cards. You can change the stats manually from the data folder: squadron. Only in weird situations do squadrons help, for example if your opponent added all the ships in the 2nd flotilla and you in the 3rd the ships will reach a stall when flanking each other, because ships can't shoot backwards or turn around, them not agile like starfuries. That's where the squadrons takes its role in the battle.

[Evgenich]

Squadrons are very slow, and beams a very fast... Actually any other weapon faster than squadrons. Thus squadrons can attack any other flotilla and make devastating damage if your Carriers are immortal/invincible and only when they eventually could get to them. Because battle considered finished when all your carriers dead, but all your squadrons still flying towards nearest enemy all alive and having twise or triple firepower than your enemy. In contrary - torpedoes(missiles) will do their job even after your ship is destroyed, and any missle speed is faster than squadrons, and missiles will "reborn" again and again when some of them were drawn by enemy flak cannons.

So then - you want some real working long range projectile damage - choose missiles.
If you want some funny space battles like in "Star Wars" movie - choose squadrons. (But first ask your rival to do the same...)

And if you need some close range projectiles damage - flak cannons is the best choise for most situations.
But sometimes - it is the squadrons. For example - your opponent does not have much FLAKs on their ships while using close range battle plan and your carriers well defendend against their kind of weapons. Then squadrons may have enough time to reach enemy ships and will able to do a lot of damage. Very occasional and rare situation thou.