Gunboats balance

[Lanseril]

I've been flying the BHG gunship, the Liberty gunboat, and the Orca gunboat a lot recently. A few thoughts:

1) The BHG gunship and capship armor issue is more because the the mkVIII is smaller (250 vs 300 cargo) compared to the other capship armors. Making it 300 like the others makes better sense to me than reducing the BHG's cargo size even more, since at 280 it's already much smaller than the 400 cargo of the other gunships. Once you can't mount the capship mkVIII armor on the BHG gunship any longer, its tiny 55000 base armor (half of other gunboats') will hurt them a LOT more.

2) The BHG gunship is only too agile because it has the same number of forward turrets (6) compared to other gunboats. Of the BHG gunship's 3 top turrets, the two back ones look like they'd be firing *through* the forward one when you mount larger turrets on them. So the solution IMO is just to make the rear two topside turrets have rear firing arcs only. With only 4 forward turrets, you'd avoid the swiss-army knife syndrome. Mounting normal guns on all 4 turrets makes the BHG a great anti-fighter gunboat with its agility, but start slapping razors or infernos on with only 4 forward turrets to play with means it's hard to have a loadout that's good against both fighters *and* other capships. You'd have to choose either capship guns + agility against other capships or anti-fighter guns + agility against fighters, but not both like you can right now. Any way you slice it, four gunboat cerbs is still a ton of damage for a ship of its size and agility.

3) The liberty gunboat needs to have its rear aft turret reduced to rear-fire only. As it is right now, it fires forward through the ship's hull. This also brings its number of forward turrets more in line with the other forward-gun gunboats.

4) All gunboat energy regen needs to be dropped to 50k or so instead of the current 65k. Gunboats are fine vs fighters/bombers IMO (that's their job after all), but as it stands right now gunboats have too much energy to spam forward-guns/razors/infernos against other capships. With its current energy, even if you went all regular gun turrets you'd *still* need multiple cerbs just to lose any energy at all while firing, which is just silly. Gunboats shouldn't have enough energy to go toe to toe with cruisers in a razor/inferno shootout (or to swarm battleships as well as they do now), especially since cruiser weapons are much less energy-efficient.

5) All of the gunship forward guns are much too energy efficient (twice that of razors, in addition to having twice the damage and twice the firing rate). They all need some combination of decreased damage and/or increased energy cost -- they're like infernos with hull damage right now, with only somewhat slower projectile speed.

I love gunboats as anti-fighter capships and would still fly them after a nerf, but they're definitely too well-rounded right now.