I haven't had a chance to field mine yet, and budget constraints mean I don't have any other of the ships or upgrade cards from Wave 1 sadly. But as far as theory goes I was thinking about using a IIA for not only its solid firepower, but as a sort of moving cover for a Corvette using the Jaina's Light title. Anything shooting through the AFIIA to the Light would lose a die before defensive tokens are ever used, and the Light could use Ion cannon effects like overload pulse to set up the AFIIA for a really punishing broadside.

Yikes how close do you want the Assault Frigate to be?

To get blue dice from Jaina's light you'll have the Assault Frigate in Black Dice range.

Mmm, see this is why it's better to posit theories to other people. What sounded GREAT in my mind had an obvious flaw I needed someone else to point out