Battleships- how about another change, so they be battleships

[EisenSeele]

Since I was reading some balance issues and the general constant whine that relates about

-battleships being uber
-battleships being driven by complete nutbags
-bombers being uber
-snubs pwning battleships
-cruisers pwning battleships
-whatnot shooting eaech other that includes battleships and preferably UP Osiris

why not make them being ships of the line that care little about the wonderful snubcraft.

Exactly, godlike in style but...useless vs smallcraft.
Something along the lines of x10 - x20 armor
Heavy, and I mean HEAVY guns, mostly energy based and torpedoes.
Point blank defense cannons with limited range
Far bigger shield with greater regeneration.
Speed cut down to third or half
ability to strafe - none.

Moer of a heavy ships that exchange salvos between each other in the fleet battles, instead of current head on charges and confusion. It wouldnt be a all-pwn ship simply because anything outruns it and no long range guns present.
Hell, expensive ammo and such joyful things. I must say, the picture of 10 battleships firing broadsides of heavy guns in Texas and all the flak firing, thats something.:P

Discuss, flame, hate.

What you would suggest would render snubs irrelevant to battleships and battleships irrelevant to snubs. While realism would dictate this be a good step, game mechanic wise, it would become yet another barrier keeping players from interacting with one another - whether or not this is a good or bad thing is not really something I'm neither qualified nor interested in answering.

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