Lensman and believable fleet organization

Have you read E. E. Smith's Lensman series, and what do you think of its command ship?

The recollection is uncertain: objections to the command ship cannot confidently be separated from objections to the wider fleet structure.

Clarke thinks he read part of E. E. Smith's Lensman series and recalls becoming frustrated with its ships. His recollection is uncertain: he cannot say whether the command ship itself or the wider fleet organization caused the problem. The discussion treats force structure as part of a military story's plausibility, even when the prose is otherwise enjoyable. Halo provides a comparison, with its later books described as revising some of the fleet arrangements presented in the early games.