It also depends on the mix of ships involved.

I don't see it as a BB+fighter vs BB+fighter.  Although that is possible, I see it as a mix of ships from fighter on up to BB.
I see a lengthy opening phase where the smallest ships make initial contact & the battle progresses from there w/ larger & larger ships engage.
So, if A has more fighters than B that means he 'll have some avail to engage the 'next-size-up' . Now this progression could result in stalemate (maybe B has enough superiority in the 'next-size-up' category to come out ahead) but it could also end in one side having some ships (CA's?) that can assist his BB/BR's while the other side does not.
Which could very well determine the end result of that battle.

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On Thu, 10/9/14, David Shaw <xxxxxx@btconnect.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, October 9, 2014, 1:49 AM

 It's still a rules
 problem.  So the nuke damper means nuclear missiles
 are useless and you're reduced to using
 lasers?  So what?  Sure, one
 laser
 won't hurt a battleship.  Two won't be any better,
 nor will three,
 four or five.

 But 300?  I don't care
 what armour your ship has, that's gonna hurt.
 Except that the rules don't allow it.

 (Checking the rules, the RTT
 flight/barrage rules do allow a flight of
 light fighters to hurt a Tigress - just - but
 they'd have to be flown by
 truly
 exceptional pilots who were also very lucky.)

 Still, the 3I has large
 amounts of fighters tooling around because, IRL,
 a tiny, little, insignificant fighter, weighing
 several orders of
 magnitude less than a
 battleship, *can* pose a very real threat to,
 well, pretty much anything if deployed in large
 enough numbers.

 As the
 Italians discovered at Taranto, the Americans at Pearl and
 the
 British off Malaya.

 But not according to Traveller rules.

 David Shaw

 On 08/10/14 22:42, Ian
 Whitchurch wrote:
 > David,
 >
 > The thing is though,
 the weapon system on a Kate can really hurt a
 > battleship if it hits it. Many point
 defense weapons make this unlikely,
 > but
 you can counter this with many small craft, leading to an
 ecosystem of
 > torpedo boat kills
 battleship kills cruiser kills torpedo boat destroyer
 > kills torpedo boat.
 >
 > But the TL12 nuke
 damper pulled the teeth of the only weapon in Trav that
 > could hurt a proper, armored, military
 ship.
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