The FW forces commander felt that there was not enough firepower left in his fleet to fight through the remaining UAP fleet and lay wast to the system they were attacking. So the Invenceble class carrier opened a Warp Point and headded for home with what escort ships could make it. The difference between and A battery and a B battery is much larger than I had anticepated. Most UAP ship carried at least 1A batt, were as B Batteries were the norm on FW ships. Much of the damage done to the FW BCRs was with long range fire from the UAP destroyer screen.
Fighters are deadly, and the only good thing to kill'em is other fighters.
Having judicious numbers of PDF's and ADF's helps, but the UAP ships did not preform well in this respect. The game played fast, about 2 hours and thats with learning the rules.