Capships, increasingly slower fighters? Or strategic weapons?

[Tenacity]

Simple:

Battleships:
-Give them some really heavy armor, and enough turrets and energy to mount both flak cannons (when flak cannons are re-made to be worthwhile) as well as decent anti-cap guns.
Battleships should be the toughest ships around, but not invincible.

Cruisers:
-Give them more artillery-focused weaponry. They should be able to out-range a battleship, but be very weak to bombers due to no anti-fighter weaponry.
Cruisers should be semi-fast, heavy-hitting caps but with a weakness at close range.

Gunboats:
-Change them to anti-bomber (and fighter) ships. Focus them on weak but fast-firing (and high projectile speed) short-range weapons, and enough manuverability to keep up with the bombers but not out-turn them entirely.
Gunboats should be anti-bomber support for larger ships, aka cruisers/battleships.

That makes each cap have a very distinct role:
-Battleships beat cruisers and gunboats at close range.
-Cruisers beat battleships at long range.
-Gunboats dont have a leg up on either of the larger ships, but are great for anti-fighter/bomber support.


EDIT:
elaborating more, with that kind of setup-

No nation would focus entirely on battleships because they have a weakness to cruisers which can pelt them with artillery fire at long range. Similarly, no nation would focus entirely on gunboats or cruisers, because they'd be opening a weakness. All three ships have their 'niche', but they all also compliment each other when used together.

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