Um no...

I think CCP should change tier one and tier two BC's to use large guns and missile launchers. Battlecruisers are large ships, but not large enough to fit BS size tank.

Cruisers are there for medium sized guns, and there are lot's of different cruiser classes to be fitted with medium sized guns.

Actually by changing tier one and tier two BC's to use large weapons, it would balance need for large weapons vs medium weapons. Right now medium weapons are much more needed than large weapons.

Also tier one and tier two BC's have drone bays, so having large weapons would not render them useless for level three missions, where they are widely used.

CCP, throw this in with assault ship changes.

Oh, and of course, command ships should be included in this change.

"Why don't all BC's have large weapons?"

Historically there were two design philosophies when it came to battlecruiser design. The new tier 3 battlecruisers follow the English style of battlecruisers where they would pack on the largest guns possible on ships with speed and armor of cruisers. The tier 1 and 2 battlecruisers follow the German battlecruiser philosophy of that was brought about by the Washington Naval Conference of 1922 (specifically the 5 Powers Treaty). This limited the caliber of armament that a ship could be armed with and so while these ships were heavily armored they were not fit with the same heavy firepower as the battleship class armaments of earlier battlecruisers. By the time war broke out these limitations were being completely ignored and the English philosophy was re-introduced across most of the worlds navies.

I think CCP should change tier one and tier two BC's to use large guns and missile launchers. Battlecruisers are large ships, but not large enough to fit BS size tank.

Cruisers are there for medium sized guns, and there are lot's of different cruiser classes to be fitted with medium sized guns.

Actually by changing tier one and tier two BC's to use large weapons, it would balance need for large weapons vs medium weapons. Right now medium weapons are much more needed than large weapons.

Also tier one and tier two BC's have drone bays, so having large weapons would not render them useless for level three missions, where they are widely used.

CCP, throw this in with assault ship changes.

Oh, and of course, command ships should be included in this change.

what the fack! How does this relate?

Um..yes.

what the fack! How does this relate?

British Battle cruisers had the alarming tendency to keep exploding. In the words of the Admiral of the fleet during a major battle "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today"

PPl are dreaming Drakes transformed to CNRs...
All attention for this topic was lost when LvL 3 missions were mentioned...plz DIE.

Also, plz do not try to be "wise" and prove your arguments with historical facts and the english vs. german philosophies for BCs in contradiction to EVE...first of all, the two are not related. Second of all, the Graf Spee class says you are wrong when you want to "condense" history and philosophies in a sentence...

The Deutschland Class Cruisers were, other than a slight tonnage issue, following the Treaty of Versailles and had to follow the caliber limitations imposed on them making them have much smaller guns than the English Battlecruisers of the time.

battle

CRUISER

Cue condescending remark by Liang, detriment to the community.

so give me a BC with a bonus to small guns, it will add variety.

You can call it Heavy Assault Frigate or Battle Frigate

The design for battlecruisers was for them to be the needed mini-battleships, hard as hell and can deal above average cruiser damage, they are for offensive actions but not "target me and kill me in 5 secs or you will die in these 5", but more like "if you want me to stop dealing this good damage on you, you would have to focus 100% on killing me you big mean battleship pilot, cuz im almost as big as you".