That does make sense. I miss the X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter series. That was good. You could coast on inertia, turn ninety degrees and unload your blasters into the side of a ship. Something I've never seen them do in the movies.

At this point, as you almost suggested earlier, I figure you might as well run the entire thing using Battlestar Galactica as a model. I love Macross for that respect. Fighters that fly towards capitol ships, land on their hulls, taking out surface systems like sensors, turrets and the like while using the only cover there is in space, that of the very ship they were attacking, as cover.