Fire power is not what we need, we need modern units to have more hit points

[karlmarx9001]

'I'll do better if I stop building battleships and start building ironclads and that's just wrong. Why did I waste my time researching batleships?'

Say what? There's no reason at all to build obselete units if you have the technology for better ones, especially in this case.

Ironclad - 4/4/3, 4 bombard, 1 range, 2 ROF, 80 shields
Battleship - 24/20/4, 8 bombard, 2 range, 4 ROF, 200 shields

[Akka]

Originally posted by karlmarx9001
Ironclad - 4/4/3, 4 bombard, 1 range, 2 ROF, 80 shields
Battleship - 24/20/4, 8 bombard, 2 range, 4 ROF, 200 shields

HEM...
A Battleship is 18/12/5 and has a ROF of 2.
An Ironclad is 4/4/4.

[karlmarx9001]

Whoops, I was using the unit appendix in the manual. Still, it's twice as effective at bombarding and 2.5 times as good or so at fighting.