[Fyron]

The large increase in damage from using light cruisers with large mounted weapons makes smaller ships unable to compete unless you can pour a lot more resources into producing small ships than your enemy can produce large ships. With the same tonnage used for weaponry, large mounted weapons do 50% more damage than normal weaponry. That is a large gap to overcome, one which the 10-20% extra defense bonus of the small hull does not make up for.

Also, it is not as drastic comparing heavy mounted weapons on battleships compared to large mounted weapons on battle cruisers, but the increase in damage is still quite significant.

[ March 22, 2004, 16:36: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]