Aces
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However, it plays the "production cost" angle brutally straight; building an army of Gundams is prohibitively expensive, but a force of GMs will do the job at a fraction of the cost, so super mobile suits are best used as force multipliers in the hands of your aces.
Source: Super Prototype - This is given some explanation later: Gundam-class mobile Suits are much more expensive to produce than GM's, given that their specs are so much greater than standard GM's; they're treated much the same way as F-14 Tomcats were, and given only to aces.
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The missiles used only against Star Destroyers is justified in many novels: missiles are much more expensive than lasers (which use a little fuel), have a huge firepower, and a typical fighter only carries a dozen, so it's ridiculous to use them against fighters, except aces.
Source: See the Whites of Their Eyes
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