Are Heavy Assault Fighters viable?

[Narmio]

Might be a better idea to have dedicated missile-interceptor fighters that could then escort your beam fighters.

[Hawkeye]

Would extremely small AMM missiles be viable on a beam fighter? You could get rather small ones if you sacrificed fuel/range to near point blank and research high warhead strength.

Minimum missile-size is 1.
Steve added this to counter some exploit using hundreds of 0.1 of even smaller submunitions to saturate enemy PD. (The AI is not able to cope with this, whereas a human would realize those to be harmless and ignore them)

[Charlie Beeler]

With the last active sensor changes (v5.0?) close assault fighters (beam and missile) have been rendered to a next to useless category against anyone with a amm/cm umbrella... unsupported.