Gunboats balance

[Robert.Fitzgerald]

LI Gunboat 1*/7 400 120000 350 24,000,000
BR Gunboat 1*/7 480 130000 350 24,000,000
KU Gunboat 1*/5 360 95000 350 21,000,000
RH Gunboat 1*/6 440 140000 350 28,000,000

Liberty Gunboat has 10k less armour than the Bretonnian gunboat, better turret placing, better agility and more.

Rheinland gunboat has LESS guns, less agility, more cost, 20k more armour.

Kusari Gunboat has less guns (2 in fact), a crap Forward gun (if I remember correctly), 35k less armour, more agility than the other house ships.

Just because the background suggests the Liberty Navy is the most advanced, there is pvp in this game. So, the ships should be balanced reasonably.
If the argument of "advanced-ness" was the case, Xenos ships should probably lose health slowly over time, as they slowly break apart. Order ships should be able to cloak, hyper-drive and more. Outcast ships should be faster and more responsive, which would represent the pilot's cardamine-stimms. It'd be total chaos...

Edit: while the Lane Hacker gunship might out-turn you, it has a large profile for its "class", terrible turret placement for turret mode and low armour. It isn't good at all, compared to the Gunship and the LI Gunboat. I could probably solo one on my bombers, since it is such a big target (wide rectangle..).

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