And how many cases did you play out having the enemy reply with ASFs?
The majority of them included ASFs on both sides, nearly all scenarios included at minimum a significant contingent of ConvFighters.
Air superiority is great but not required, as long as the side fielding LAMs has air parity. In fact, the LAMs (
Starscreams in this case of my AU) actually present a unique threat to hostile ASF: If they pursue the other side's conventional ASF too far over hostile territory they risk a LAM lance transforming behind them and changing the tide of that dogfight. If that happens enough times, "Air Parity" may become "Air Superiority".
Sure, after that the other side can scramble Aeros to try and off the LAM lance, but it takes 1 turn to transform back to 'Mech form, and now they're just wasting fuel. Unless the scrambling Aeros are somehow launching next to the front so they can attack the airborne LAMs immediately after launching, which is a very bad idea since that's within artillery distance.