My apologies if this has been asked before.

I understand how many support craft you can have in your landing bays and I understand how many support craft you can have if you don't have landing bays. What I'm curious about is if the "bonus" shuttles you get under the "Ships Without Landing Bays" option also apply to a ship that has landing bays.

For example, does a cruiser with 75 space get 15 support craft + whatever support squadrons are set aside in the landing bays? Or does it just get whatever support squadrons are set aside in the bays?

By a strict interpretation of the rules: No you don't get any additional craft if you are equipped with a launch bay. It seems reasonable, a craft with even the smallest landing bay can hold 24 support craft, more than you can get from hull points and single hold.

On the other hand it is probably not a problem to allow the additional craft based on holds and hull points, as long as you limit it to support craft and don't given them the achievement point bonus for those craft (since they didn't give up anything to have them).