Capships + Traders

[McNeo]

My cap VIII slave liner (which now is in the process of slowly being broken down into its base components) had 880k armour before the nerf. My friend, that is more than some battleships unchanged armour (but, what battleships go around without armour upgrades these days?). A lone bomber with an SN and a CD will take it down if it's flown properly. It'll take time, sure, but thats what Transport armour is there for; to give traders time to escape.

Simply put, the Slave Liner, one of the heaviest transports both offensively and defensively, does not have the offensive power of a cruiser. Yeah, sure, it's transport turrets arent so bad when you compare them to cruiser primaries, but what really sets them apart is cruiser heavy weapons.

In a kusari destroyer, you can halve a gunboat shield in a pass. Double inferno, double battlerazor, which is a universal loadout for killing everything except battleships.
Now tell me that is fair, against even the most heavily armoured badass trader.
This gets even worse when its a heavy cruiser/siege cruiser, and you add in a light mortar.
And worse when its a Battlecruiser or a Dreadnought.

Transports have the armour so they can get away from assailants. Thats the only reason they have this armour, so they can get to safety before they blow up. Gunboats and Bombers do have good chances to kill even the heaviest trader. Just, not before they dock on a base. Perhaps this is the problem?