Capships, increasingly slower fighters? Or strategic weapons?

[gafwmn]

ok..here's a few cents worth of my time.
Battleships and Dreadnaughts....should be the baddest ships in the game....with the right support ships(ex-navy here,RL).In my opinion, BS and Dread's should have weap ranges between 4k to 5.5k...I mean come on.....these are the big boys of the fleet.(and thats for the battleship turrets,depending on type....i would really like to see/participate in space battles...not Victorian era broadsides fights).And re-install the 6 turret slots that are there but disabled ( my mod guy found them and reactivated them for our server) .Give it more armor,more power ( and how many of us have been owned by 2 bombers while piloting our pride and joy?..hmmmm...be honest).
BattleCruisers can be thought of in one of 2 ways,depending on how you outfit it....Heavy Cruiser or pocket Battleship.Cruiser guns should have a range of 3.5k to 4.5k (5.5k because of the 2 level 10 turrets).
Cruisers...need more turrets,armor,and power....possibly some of the GB level would be nice...cruiser turret ranges ( again, depending on the type) 2.5k to 4.5k range.
And Gunboats.....think of them as the Little Engine that Could......they are used as heavy recon....anti fighter/bomber.....and for distracting and harrasing larger cap ships....and their turret ranges should be 1k to 3k.
I really would like to see the caps rebalanced....can't have epic space battles for the holo-vids the way they currently are.
And for the idea of strategic weapons.....maybe the all energy consuming spinal mount weapon?....or the freakishly large anti cap-ship missile( anybody read the Honor Harrington books?).
But as a side note....look at the weapons on the Iowa Class Battleship....from 16" guns all the way down to .50 caliber machine guns.Now thats how a battleship should be armed and armored...to the teeth.17" thick armor on the main decks, and 32" thick armor at the waterline belt ( where a torpedo would most likely hit the ship).
Ok...and there's my nickels worth.

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