So when building your force (post wave one) are you allowed more points for squadrons or is the number staying at 60?

1/3 of the max point value, 180=60 in squads, 300(wave1)=100 and 400(wave 2 and beyond)=134(rounding up per rules).

You're allowed 1/3 your points on squadrons.

The FAQ clarifies this, if you're looking for a cite.

Q: During fleet-building, how many fleet points can a player spend on squadrons?
A: A player can spend up to one third of the fleet point total, rounded up. For example, if playing a 200-point game, a fleet could contain 67 points of squadrons, even if the total cost of that fleet was only 190.

Fantastic. I've been on my phone and looking for the ruling but if it's 1/3 than awesome!

Do you mean to tell me if I build a fleet of ships only that would wind up being 297 for example I can still have 100 puts worth of fighters? I don't think it's that way but I want to be sure.

Its one third of the *allowed* point cap for that match, not your own fleet list total.

Do you mean to tell me if I build a fleet of ships only that would wind up being 297 for example I can still have 100 puts worth of fighters? I don't think it's that way but I want to be sure.

It is that way. Now you are sure.

I'm not sure there is any other way we can explain it...

The FAQ has a line clarifying it.

Doing it any other way is complicated and stupid(for the designers to set in place.)

It would be a bad ruling to make it 1/3 of 183 (61) plus 1/3 of 61(21). Plus 1/3 of 21(7) plus 1/3 of 7(3) plus 1. It's just bad design to have something that stupidly complicated when you can say 1/3 of 100.

Do you mean to tell me if I build a fleet of ships only that would wind up being 297 for example I can still have 100 puts worth of fighters? I don't think it's that way but I want to be sure.

It is that way. Now you are sure.

I loled

No I think you miss understand the question. if I bring a 297 point fleet of only ships I also get a 100 puts worth of fighters to put the final total at 397 for a 300 pt game?

I ask because of how the Rules Reference PG. 6 Fleet Building Paragraph plus the 5th bullet point tells me a fleet of 297 points of nothing but ships and upgrades means I'm allowed 3 points to spend fighters. I'm probably just reading all this wrong on here but some of my local players seem to think it works like my original scenario in this post.

Your build total is X, you aren't ever allowed to exceed that. You can have fighters up to 1/3rd of X, but your ship and squadron total still can't exceed X.

Ok good I just needed a clarification

Ok good I just needed a clarification

4th post in this thread gives the exact answer to your question, in a quote straight from the FAQ.