Gunboat Cloaks

[Biggles]

Yes the difference is small for the three gunboats which are able to mount the HAU 4 (which can all mount a CAU 5 anyway so I'm not even sure what your point is). You conveniently ignore the others like the Perilous (at the other extreme), which isn't even able to mount a HAU 2. Having to fly that with a HAU 1 rather than a CAU 6 is a massive disadvantage (a loss of 132000 armour).

This is beside the point however:

People keep coming up with ways that a cloak gives you a PvP advantage on a gunboat to justify the limitation while ignoring the fact that cruisers and battleships can mount cloaks with CAUs no problem, despite the fact a cloak gives them a considerably greater tactical advantage due to their burst damage as Spazzy said. There is inequality even within the gunboat class, since three factional (no civilian option) gunboats are able to use CAU 5. This is why I would like a dev response because it seems irrational and unfair. Either all caps should be able to mount CAUs with their cloaks, or none of them should.

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