Editing Vandrayk's Starship Combat Guide (section)

==== Mini-Frig (4600-4900 Blocks) ====
Mini-Frigates exist as effectively a corvette that has more usages in fleet combat at the trade off of being less effective than corvettes at killing smaller ships. Mini-Frigates gain access to a phaser, and faster tri-turret firerate, while losing access to pulses. These ships mostly fly in direct control (/dc) and are evenly matched against corvettes.

You should play aggressively against capital ships in these, utilizing your phaser (range ~200m) and light turrets to deal massive single shield damage, then retreating to outside of render when your shields get hit hard. While regenning your shields, utilize your tri turret (range 500m) to deal damage.

An Optimal Mini-frigate has 8 similarly sized shields, a phaser in each cardinal direction, front facing plasmas, mostly glass front bridge, 5-6 light turrets on top/bottom, 2 tri turrets on top/bottom, (1 is acceptable)

These ships are evenly matched by attack frigates (6.5k), countered directly by Frigates (8000), and countered indirectly by other capitals (10k, 12k)