[Fyron]

Large ships have a huge advantage over small ships in that they can do quite a bit more damage from mounts... Using smaller warships (such as cruisers) when you have Battleships available is not a good idea. Sure, you might build individual ships more quickly, but they will be signifcantly weaker, so there is no real gain there... Mounts are very overly powerful. The only mount that is questionable is when you compare baseships with battleships. Baseships can do a bit more damage from the mounts (much less of an advantage comparing Massive and Heavy mounts than there is when comparing Heavy and Large mounts), but they have a significant speed disadvantage, which may or may not negate the damage advantage, depending on the situation. Baseships also have a huge defense penalty, which is always a bad thing...

Many mods make efforts to nullify the huge advantages that larger ships get from mounts specifically so that smaller attack ships can actually be of use when you have larger ships around...