Gunboats are useless

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It can be that this is allready somewere in the forum but i cant get it in my mind why gunboats are so easy to kill with fighter and/or Transports (havy/super heavy) dont get me wrong a bomber i get it why, but fighters? They are suposed to be good at intercept bombers or other fighters not to go and shoot things biger then them self exept to slow down the movement.

And transports. ok the most of them are no problem at all (small/ middle ) but the big ones even they have not the bigest guns i know but some of them have many and can give a bad burn over a short time,still killable do but wtf a gunboat should not have so much effort to blow them up. (and again fighters seems to have no problem with that)

Possible solutions with the fighter problem

1. Get rid of gunboats and/or call them heavy transports
2. Get them better / more AA (anti air, i know bad name for a space sim) guns (faster speed long range possible splash dmg) so they can be more efficient in fights agianst fighters
3. Nerf shields from all the fighters it cant be that they have better shields than a "big" Warship / or buff gunboat shields

Possible solutions with the Transports

Longer range for the gunboat guns and razor or nerf for the transports guns in range (btw they also leak a good AA solution)


yeah i know this topic has a whiney vibe to it, but think about it, when u see a some hessen player fighters blow up a rheinland / corsiar gunboat esscort

cant wait for the haters ;P

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