"Yeah, it's easy enough," Zenith agrees. She half turns to face the rest of the hangar and gestures with a wide sweep of her arm.
"Over there are the p-wings. Those are the heavy bombers which carry the heavy photon missiles used to attack the big capital ships. And over there are the e-wings. Now the e-wings have two purposes. They escort the p-wings in and try to pierce the enemy fighter screens, and they try to intercept enemy bombers that are coming in. So you have to balance the roles. Too many on offense, and you risk enemy bombers getting through. Too many on defense, and you lose your bombers before they can fire."
She looks back at Rosa. "Our fighters are a match for anything the Empire's put out yet. P-wings are big and clumsy, but pretty fast on a straight run and can take a hell of a beating. They also have good defensive weapons, so their escorts don't have to stay TOO close to them when engaging. The Imperial missile bombers are a lot less self-sufficient, which forces them to use more fighters on escort. It also makes their bombers a lot more vulnerable to fast 'spearhead' attacks, where you take a small wedge formation and just plunge right through the escorts to take on the bomber directly, then get the hell out before the fighters can react. Plus, every E-wing has a pretty good-sized load of torpedoes, which are perfect for taking out slow ships like bombers. Pretty much the only big problems we run into is where we're outnumbered by a large margin."
(OOC - Edit to reflect actual complement on the ship we're on. Sorry, for some reason I thought we were on a bigger one. *headconk*)