I would throw a skip drive on it and teleport it into the middle of a fleet. The rocket pods tended to all home on a single target; great if it was the flagship, bad if it was a support, as unlike missiles they rarely had time to redirect. The lasers were similarly able to take out things from any direction, a bit better than the rocket pods. It had a pretty large support capacity as well, but was exceedingly average as a combat ship.
Do you think it would work better if those rocket pods were replaced with direct-fire weapons like, say, railguns? The firing arc limitations would mean that the flagship simply could not bring all it's weapons to bear on a single foe.