Horizon: One bomber is not enough to kill an escort with any sort of reliability, since said bomber will get destroyed 50% of the time. If the escort is B2b with it's buddies, it's destruction closes in on 100%.
There is -nothing- wrong with having 2 LC, and having it be a "hold over from the hero days" is a purely subjective thing on your part. This fleet is STILL heavily dependent on LC, even more so now that the average number of hits to the fleet has been forcibly reduced by 2 across the board.
The Tau are adaptive and practical, why remove something that works? Simply giving them one more LC will also remove any need for them to have a 'carrier' variant and justify the cost of the ship.
it also prevents some loud, nasty and unpleasant rules disputes in the future, and does not complicate things with "oh this launch bay only fires one thing, this one fires another". It's absurd.
Giving it one more LC to justify it's cost is not going to change how it's used either, it will just make it's presence as a flexible combat vessel more defined. I still UTTERLY fail to see your justification as to why they would move away from a method of war that works remarkably well. Sure, more gun is great, but they have some of the best attack craft and torpedo's in the game... why move away from what works so well against almost every opponent?
Sig: Thanks for agreeing that the stronghold needs to be a 12 hit battleship.. seriously, what were they thinking...