Gunboats beating Cruisers

[Montezuma/Kukulcan]

A gunboat CANNOT beat a cruiser until and unless the Cruiser guy is a super noob and the gunboat guy is a super pro

Wrong.

I for one managed to take out JD's BHG BC in an Imperator (and he is a damn good pilot), and i would assume that other people would be able to mannage the same given that i dont consider myself one of the best pilots on disco, or even near that. To improve the performance of Cruisers against GBs you need only to give them better firing arcs, with their longer ranged weapons and heavy weapons such as mortars, they would be able to make short work of Gunboats should they be able to focus more than 2 or 3 turrets on it at one time.

As for the matter in hand of bombers being incapable to take down Gunboats (not really much of a problem IMO), the solution i would suggest would be to create a bomber EMP cannon, doing something in the range of 100,000 sheild dammage and 2,000 hull dammage, with the same speed/range as the SNAC roughly.

And on one last point, the solution to Gunboats is -never- to send for cap support, the best option is to send for bombers, you would only need 2 or 3 working in tandom to take down the heaviest of Gunboats, unless the Gunboat pilot posesses significant skill.

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