Quote: It set me wondering about who else might not be able to support a house sized fleet - or indeed any sized fleet - of heavy warships.
It also depends on how this "fleet" actually represents itself. Do I imagine the Red Hessians have a FLEET of Jormungands out there? No, that's not realistic in any way. But in terms of gameplay, Hessians also don't have a huge ZOI and near across the board diplomatic neutrality that Zoners do. So that's a balance.
Zoners just want to have it all...and cry long and loudly when they can't have it.
IMO, I would agree that it would make sense to make Bunters have only up to GB strength, but those Gunboats should be awesome. Maybe extra power core and heavy gun slots to compensate.