Armor Upgrades on Gunboats

[Xoria]

I really hate creating yet another one of these threads about in game issues, but I have been thinking about this for a while and I can't make up my mind.

For the purposes of using an armor upgrade, is a gunboat considered a capital ship and thus requires the use of a capital armor upgrade and prohibits the use of the regular armor upgrade?

Or....something else?

I have seen quite a few gunboats with the regular ones...course I can't tell from a scan if it is mounted or just being carried around.

I can see good arguments both ways. It seems like the fighter armor shouldn't work for a larger ship like a gunboat. But at the same time, it's crazy to pay 800 whatever millions for a mark 8 capital armor upgrade for a gunboat that costs 20 million.

Given the threat of RP sanctions for equipment, I don't want to give it my best think so and take a risk.

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