Gunboat power supply balance

[mjolnir]

A Bret gunboat with the powerplant of a light cruiser would find itself boosted from utterly 'meh' to rather good.

One of those interesting balance things.

Actually it would find itself boosted to utterly uber... remember that it has Forward gun (with wide firing arc) + 6 forward firing turrets + 1 that fires partly forward as well. Combine that with the much more energy efficient GB guns and you have a problem.

GB should not be able to beat cruiser easily, especially not the biggest and slowest GB again the smallest cruiser. Yes kusari dessie is rather small (smaller than some GBs) but it's a vanilla ship, made like that by the game authors. It has only 9 hardpoints out of which 6 fire only in a narrow arc forward and only 2 fire right back. I have recently had a go inmy kusari dessie (Cap 8) with Teknikal in his bret GB with Cap 8, he was almost able to out-gun and out-armor me with it.


Bret GB should have the same powerplant as Corsair GB, Kusari explorer (7 Guns, but really slow) and Rheinland GB (5 guns and really slow).

Corsair GB should have its gun firing arcs fixed.

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