DuracellEnergizer said:

In the case of SW (aka ANH), I could see why fighters were involved in a space campaign -- so I'm willing to excuse it -- but from ROTJ onward, I just don't get the logic of fighters involving themselves in battles with capital ships; they don't have the firepower to take down large ships, so basically they're just being wasted blowing away other fighters.

So yeah -- I'm hoping the ST limits fighters to surface battles and leaves the big space battles to the larger ships.

That's absurd. It is like saying that aircraft were useless against ships in pacific theatre of WW2, when it was completely opposite.

In fact, starfighters are the only thing that makes the rebel victory in ROTJ reasonable... assuming rebels had better bombers (B-Wings) that devastated imperial ships.