Outnumbered, they will die in a blaze of glory as one would expect.

Note that Fighters do anti-light damage and thus do more damage to LRM's then bombers would.

To be honest,static defenses just don't cut it with lrm's, the issue isn't that they do too much damage,it's just that when your facing 100 frigates,and you take them out 1 at a time,it'l take for freaking ever....and eventually you'll break.

Anyways,if you must build static defenses,4 hangars all with fighters,and as many repair bays around em as you can fit. micro the fighters so the ydon't all attack a separate target, and you should bring a considerable number down.

Static defense can never stop a dedicated attack force but it can slow it down long enough for defensive fleets to come to a rescue.

But that isn't really about LRMs, is it? That's just general static defenses. Going by the original subject line and the original post, it asked if hangers are effective against LRMs.

Thread 1,078,525+1 about fighters against LRMs.

If you're playing against the AI in SP, having at least 3 hanger defenses seems to deter the normal AI from attacking. I ran into a bunch of situations where the AI would jump ships into one of my planet's gravity wells and then immediately turn around because of those interceptor fighters coming at them. They would only launch an attack against me in full force or if they were paired up with a fellow AI.

Hanger defense does not seem as effective in MP, but it sure can surprise people when they see 6 to 10 fighters coming at them. It often knocks people off-guard because they may not initially have units available that can counter fighters, especially if there's mostly an LRM fleet. Also, hanger defense will aide you should you need to retreat. The moment enemy ships pursue it's like you've gotten free backup sitting there at a planet ready to engage the enemy. However, in MP people are obviously smart enough to go after the hanger defense instead of instantly rushing to the planet to bombard it...typically.

beginning game, hangar defense is godliness vs LRF spammers.

thats funny, i thought advent did....or is that just the carrier cap? oh well. against someone that is an LRF (yes i said LRF instead of LRM) spammer, 5 or 6 carriers with fighters > 12 LRFs. if your gonna go on a raiding party, try sending in just bombers and have them FF defenses. after defenses are gone, phase them out and hit em somewhere else with your main fleet. i did this in a game. 10 carriers with nothing but bombers can pretty much do some heavy damage before your forced to retreat. hit hangar bays first. they usually have fighters early game and fighters > bombers. with the rest of your fleet, go hit somewhere else. run into hangar defense? hope you don't have LRFs cause wow, early game, 2 or 3 hangar defenses chew through those guys. also, if you see someone spamming LRFs, just build LRFs AND cruiser carriers. your fighters chew threw the LRFs while your LRFs chew through...everything else.

Huh? What's funny, Advent did what?

The problem is also... you would have to build them in every system, not just one.

If you only heavily fortify one system then an attacking fleet can simply bypass that with minimal losses and ravage all your undefended systems instead.

Hangar bays are useful for taking down lone passing scouts and giving air cover to your fleets when fighting in your own territory - it may be useful to have 6-8 extra squadrons flying around. That's like having an extra capital carrier in battle, but without the abilities. But if you don't expect full-scale invasions and need to only take down pirate raids or AI, then a thick ring of turrets may be better.