It's a bigger issue than simply making it a gunboat too. A lot of players have built rp on and around it. It was billed as the "family heirloom" ship of a typical Junker. Most aren't flying gunboats.
It is pretty balanced as a transport. handing is not great not overarmored or overly armed and nowhere near a match for bombers or capital ships. Can we hear why it was decided it had to be a gunboat?