7- and 8-gun gunboats

[Nicolas]

Same for enhanced thruster. Bomber pirates always blow my thruster first, only takes 1-2 hits
Well that's my point. They are treated as if they are all the same class, but the heavies are in a different class on a practical basis. If your advice for fightin them comes down to "use ships from another class" then something is wrong. Limiting their arcs so they can only fire 6 in any direction is a possible fix--they would still be stronger than the other ships in their class, but you'd now be able to fight them with other ships that are supposedly in the same class.

Cruisers and destroyers would have the same problem then. If you want to nerf the heavy GBs then you`d have to nerf heavy cruisers too to keep the balance.

I think it really is fine as it is, I don`t see a problem that some factions might have an advantage with some ship classes, each faction has their weaker shipclasses too.

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