' Wrote:Interception of foreign capital ships in home systems. Quite often Alpha has Zoner warship visitors, for instance, and to be able to deal with them when you don't find friends around, you would need another capital ship.
EDIT: This whole cruiser thing is not so bad. It gives cap pilots on "both sides" stuff to do, and lots of fun for bombers too.
Just one of many examples. Like, with this, to take out hostile battleship or cruiser in your own home system, you automatically require a teammate. Because gunboat won't solo a cruiser or battleship, fighter wont solo a cruiser or battleship, and bomber won't solo a cruiser or battleships.
In team fights, cruisers are picked for their ability to deal and endure damage (through tanking or evading) and to CD. Remove CDs from it, and battleships suddenly become way, way more useful - because they're often better at both dealing and enduring damage.
Without a CD cruiser's role in a fleet becomes way, WAAAAY less important. To the point where single gunboat or bomber would be more useful.
' Wrote:Battleships and Battlecruisers can't be used for that purpose?
Sorry? Battleships never could be used for that purpose, they never had a CD.
Battlecruisers are same as cruisers with increased damage but reduced "effective armor". Glass cannons, that have it's own specifics in a fight. (and, sometimes, reduced speed. Those are not so useful as the ones with normal speed)
