Hrm..  It might be too much, but maybe a reworking of the fleet tactics button.  What if in adition to the form a fleet, and fleet range settings there was another menu you could drop down into that let you assign fleet target priorities?  It could be fairly simplistic or very complex...  The simpler would be my choice.  It could look like a drop down that had a few ship types listed like, LRM, Carriers, Cap Ships, Structures.  That might not be the best mix, but you get the idea.  The more complex might have each ship role and then a set of priorities..like 1st, 2nd, 3rd and you could assign a target ship role to each slot.  Again, I'd prefer the simpler menu, but that's me.  Thoughts???

i also noticed that the bombers always go after siege frigates and the fighters something else in pirate raids but on the tooltip it says that the fighters are counter to siege frigates and that bombers are not!

Edit: i like the drop down menu idea

probably a problem in pretty much every game that involves light craft making passes against an enemy. In command & conquer generals i could build 100 raptors(400 missiles), which was massive overkill on anything in the game, but no feasible way to make them divide up their fire power. a lot worse their though cause they alwayys fired all missile at a target(unless they were too far back when it got destroyed by the leaders) and had to go all the way back to my airfields and reload.

I tend to control group my squadrons: one for bombers, one for fighters. I realize this is somewhat heavy handed for some cases because you have all your squads selected at once, but it helps a bit.