Cruiser Balance

[Blodo]

Yeah, but the question is how to up cruisers so they don't become the next gunboats?

The problems with cruiser is like Doom said related mostly to other classes. Two decent cruisers could take out a battleship, that's fine, so could two decent bombers. Those same two bombers not only can take out a cruiser, they can eat it for breakfast if allowed to. Now bombers are hard counters to all sorts of caps, lets not touch that, but perhaps cruisers/destroyers should be allowed to just sit at range and pummel away at their enemies while retaining the amount of armour they have now? Increase their overall weapons range to say 2500 (or more even), so that they can lay down fire from a good distance? That would make them proper destroyers effective against battleships in 1v1s if they could manage to stay at range. They would still be useless without escorts when it comes to bombers, but we want to keep it that way. What do you guys think?