Gunboats balance

[Telbasta]

GBs can and always will have power to destroy cruiser if they are flown by good pilot.

I think that greatly depends on the specific ships involved. My kusari gunboat would never stand a chance going one on one with any cruiser around, but with another similarly set-up kusari gunboat aiding me the two of us stand a good chance at winning against a cruiser.

Lots of people think that gunboats should be inferior to cruisers, but why? It's called GUN BOAT and it has one really big gun on it. Also, do you remember the sp mission from California where Walker and his fleet were fighting Rheinlanders? Walker says, "These gunboats are too fast for our turrets" and orders all fighters to engage them.

The agility thing is correct, and I remember that mission from SP well. In large numbers, gunboats -should- be able to defeat cruisers, but in a one-on-one situation a gunboat should not have enough firepower to single-handedly destroy a cruiser or larger vessel.

Destroyer - Should have large amount of firepower. Slower than a Cruiser.
Cruiser - More agile than a Destroyer. Not as much firepower.

The opposite, actually. Take a look at real-life naval vessels - destroyers are smaller than cruisers, and are designed to out-flank enemy ships. They sacrafice firepower to achieve that.
A WW2 destroyer was fast enough to avoid the main cannons on most larger ships, but was equipped with torpedo tubes so they could speed past an enemy cruiser or carrier and do some serious damage to it.

Cruisers, on the other hand - especially modern cruisers - are larger vessels armed to the teeth with cannons and missile launchers.

Right now, the game is correct in how they are balanced against one another - Cruisers have more turret hardpoints than destroyers, and usually have more armor as well - while being countered by having lower manuverability.

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