Gunboat Cloaks

[Epo]

Well, battleships and even cruisers are much bigger than funboats. If you compare a few funboats, well there have always been heavy and light ones. If it's somehow uncomfortable for you just invest in cloak disruptors to avoid being buttcloaked to death. Really, a few cloak disruptors and they can ruin cloaker's day, like it was proven in Omicron Zeta and Magellan 's pew while either Marduks or Valors got decloaked and then wiped to dust. And still, gunboat decloaking on snubs with lets say missiles/razors and gatling turrets could be problematic, even if it's HAU1ed Perilous. Cloaking device gives you some possibilities, eg. to strike in the weakest spots. It's just a weapon and it depends on you how you're going to use it. I personally think that the policy that's present in current days is the proper one.
There should be stronger and weaker things, lets mention the Liberty-Bretonnian alliance, LB brings light Defiants and Dessies while Brets give massive Dunkirk and their funboat. That's another story that in FL smaller most likely means better, tho.

To sum up: Make a good use of your pros, try to cover your cons. Get a proper ship to face the hostile vessel and it should be fine.