[AP] Fighter Escort

[Aidyer]

I have a Griffon Sentinel, and to make things interesting I want to get five M3 class ships in a wing to pick off the smaller ships when I raid pirate/Xenon sectors. I've tried the ATF Thor, as its stats are good, but the shields are knocked off too quickly. This is because of M6+ ships that I can't get to quickly enough attacking them. Not many M3s have a higher shielding than the Thor, but really I want my M3s to only attack other M3s and below, but I don't know how to have the M3s avoid M6+ ships and "Attack Fighters" like in the command console, but for whole fleet. So here are two questions:
1. What is the best M3 class ship to have a convoy of and
2. What is the most effective way to manage them?

[lordmuck]

1. What is the best M3 class ship to have a convoy of and
2. What is the most effective way to manage them?

Iv been using a mix of Enh eclipse and Enh elites in my Griffon HEPTS for the eclipse and PBG (Ithink) for the elites also PBG in the turrets of the Eclipse

BUT! I have been using CODEA and set the fighters to only attack "small" ships

as for vanilla I dont know I have not tried