It was not just the OG Squad and Char Squad that would use warships. In fact, Xiao Ran intended to equip every team in the Legion with a roughly equivalent warship. In ordinary missions, a complete team configuration paired with a suitable warship could indeed provide considerable assistance. As someone who had benefited from them, Xiao Ran naturally understood the changes a warship could bring to a mission.
A headquarters, a logistics base, a safe home, and a backup hangar. More than that, it was powerful assault firepower. Especially after gaining Space Jump capabilities, they could fight whenever they wanted, flee whenever they wanted, and come and go freely with immense convenience.
It was not impossible to equip these two squads with Small Macross-class ships, but in some respects, their compositions were entirely different from Xiao Ran's and the Jeffrey Squad's. They simply had no proper bridge personnel. Xiao Ran's bridge had Mwu, Bobby, Moses, and Billy. El-Elf could perhaps be counted as well, along with Sheryl, who could lend a hand.
As for the Jeffrey Squad, Jeffrey served as captain, and with the Bridge Trio assisting him, there was no problem at all.
But aside from Tetsuya, everyone in the OG Squad was a pilot. Char Squad was in much the same situation. In that case, using Small Macross-class ships was somewhat unsuitable. Not every position could be filled by Harow Robots in place of humans, so what truly suited them was a type of warship with simpler programming.
Still, Xiao Ran was only offering an idea and suggestion from the perspective of practicality. Whether such a warship would actually be useful after being built was impossible to say. The specifics would have to be decided by technicians such as Luo and Renard, as well as the teams with