The point to use a light ship is that it is dirt cheap to repair and outfit, and can outmaneuver and outrun big ships.
Why should it have an "upper hand in combat against a big ship", other than that you want to be able to kill whatever you want with no risk to yourself?
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I don't see your point here.
Anaconda costs 147,000,000 credits.
Viper costs 142,000 credits.
I can't kill you in my anaconda. You can't kill me in your viper.
And this is unbalanced because IF you were suicidally stupid enough to try to kill my vastly bigger and more expensive ship one on one without running I could kill you?
What point is there to even owning a big ship with your grand plan?