Cruiser Balance

[Telbasta]

ah, the outcast cruises blind spot is its bottom, isn t it? - i thought all its turrets are mounted on its top - and it cannot fire straight downwards.... but i might be wrong.

The outcast destroyer has two turrets (maybe just one, but I think i saw a second) on the bottom, but almost all of it's turrets are restricted to top firing arcs only - so yea, it has a huge blind spot underneath the ship.

I do agree that most cruisers need work, however. They dont have great power supplies, and most of them are too large. Ideally they should be manuverable enough and have a long enough range to act as anti-battleship vessels in numbers (2 or more), just like gunboats are anti-cruiser vessels in numbers (2 or more, usually).

Manuverability and the capability to dodge incoming fire seems much more important here than raw hull strength or firepower. My kusari gunboat - with two missile turrets, two solaris turrets, and a forward gun - was able to take on an outcast destroyer 1 on 1 almost entirely due to the fact that I was able to dodge 90% of his fire.

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