What is the build time of those Attitudes cruisers? Is it practical to build out the fleet with quite a bunch of them, paired up with 2 jump capable ones for a smaller Cruising force?
Because it is cooler to fight with cruisers than fighters (albeit that the fighters have proven very effective.)
They take a bit over two years to build... which is quite reasonable. Our Battlecruisers, which have exactly the same armament ... size-6 x 8 + size-1 x 6 ... take six months longer to build.
I am planning to bulk out the fleet with a bunch of non-jump ships, yes... we already have four non-jump Hero-II-NJ Battlecruisers under construction, and as soon as these three non-jump Attitudes come off the ways I will be laying down three more. I have also laid down three more non-jump Destroyer Escorts (for a total of nine so far).