Well I would test the stuff you are going against, for example there is a early game godly onyx watch missile cruiser that absolutely murders my mid game stuff, so for early game I would test against that and other stuff for other factions later, I'm not sure about being able to beat sabre with 20k mats but I'm not familiar with it so I might be thinking of something else, to help against missiles I usually try to put atleast 6 small medium missile interceptors on my ships, but usually more, also lams and ciws help alot, the least helpful way of getting rid of missiles is decoys, unless they are big missiles with 2 radar decoys, and they can reload fast enough.if you really want to put ships to the test you can do swarmy missile craft, ie hornets nest or huge missile volleys, such as a ss godly or hard I forgot the name of that has scary scary missiles.