Around level 25 during 200% Vet Chance Events is your best bet (Note you'll vet cap @ 110 though) So maybe try around lvl 40ish depending how much your willing to spend per fighter in real $

Before level 40 is your best bet for the early vets but you will cap them pretty low. Also please refer to this for proper classing of your pilots (its the same for all nations):
http://www.opennavyfield.com/smf/index.php?topic=440.0

For the amount of vets you plan on putting on your fighters Ace fighter would be best.



I would say 5/3 is the best for a balanced setup. 3 groups per launch for bomber and plenty of fighters to support your team and screen your bombers.

Think competitiveness though. 5 fighters is extremely awkward to juggle, trying to keep them coming as theyre going down would be weird with that.

thankyou for the link very useful. ill take your advice and vet to 150 and stay at ace (im not to keen on the $$$ needed to over-vet).

How would it be weird? I do not understand what is awkward about it.

Not really awkward. I have a total of 7 odd fighters in my CV. I would have wished I have 8 but the eight slot came handy for a BB6 engy for my Lexington. My first wave is 3-3-3 and the second and third waves are 5-5. I can use 2-2-2 on my first wave to faster loading and be able to intercept scouts in the early minutes of the battle. They can buy me enough time to load my 5-5 and slug it on with enemy fighters.

The problem will show up with I hit PCV, I would really wish for the eight fighter and still retain my engy. It is fairly useless if I will load 7 fighters and one tb/db. If I'd do that I will just end up in the worst area in the Jedi forums.

This is right on. I run 4/3 and a high level seamen to make up for my leveling fighters. This works quite well as I can send packages of 7 DB or TB and 4 FTR, or I can send 11 ftr split over 2 pilots.