Somehow, I really, really doubt that.....
I do to.
But the point still stands that making assumptions based on that tiny bit of fluffed out battle description would be foolish and unreliable.
NOW, if that description was
The M5's gathered at extreme range from the incoming SLDF fleet & began to shell the enemy warships with Naval Gauss fire at long range
, then THAT, I would say, is worthy of making assumptions about armament.
But what we got ?
Well SB said it best, we aren't going out and assuming that the only incoming warships were armed with Naval Lasers & Missiles are we?
a Caspar is fighting guerilla-style, without access to ready supplies of ammunition, they can keep on fighting.
I'm not seeing Caspars ever fighting Guerrilla style. (Just my opinion)
They gather into a massive formation, we know this from both Brasso & the Terra invasion.
Then they pound the crap out of the enemy with high speed passes.
Either they win or they get wiped out.
Running off into the nether reaches of a system only to come back later & start raiding shipping lanes ??
Not unless the Humans in the ground bases are giving them those kinds of orders.
And really, if you have made the Caspars retreat, then you have already leared a path to drop divisions of troops onto the world. Which means said ground bases are likely getting invaded soon and the next orders will be coming from Friendlies.
The capital missiles make sense .... to launch nukes.
You think its a good idea to give Nukes to Robots ?
I'm having flashbacks to the Terminator series right now.....
Too much room for error there IMHO. (The dang things already trashed merchants when they couldn't read the IFF codes right.)
I don't want them thinking my City is an "enemy ground troops concentration" and nuking civvies from orbit. Not to mention there were rules about using Nukes close to the planet, and from what we have seen, the Caspars seemed to gather around the planet.
Caspars were deployed in large #s, they didn't need to depend on Nukes, they had Firepower, #'s, Speed, & Endurance on their side. (Again, just my opinion)