Scruffy

I haven't played in a long while, so now I'm curious about one war-related thing. I could tolerate the obnoxious fleet-wrangling portion of fighting but always felt let down that the game never seemed to favor a robust fleet composition. I dreamed of creating carrier groups, long range missile groups, anti-fighter screens, and tanky frontline ships, but it seemed to devolve into highest damage weapon spam plus evade. Is that still how it works because I'm SO close to being interested in this.