Salamanders + Fast Missile Racks + Missile Specialization 10 = Overpowered game breaker!
Any player controlled flagship with Fast Missile Racks, especially Venture or Doom, can hang back from afar, and spam Salamanders non-stop, and kill any (unskilled) ship very quickly. Salamanders will hit, and eventually, once armor is gone, they will murder ships quickly.
This is the first time I would pick Condor over Gemini, at least as a flagship, because Condor can launch Salamanders non-stop.
Salamanders need clip-and-reload like Pilums and MIRVs.
I will comment on other changes later.