Idea for an april fools event: Armed Merchants
There would be three classes of ships: Heavies, like Olympic or Mauretania. They would have low damage and limited firing angles but they would be absolute bullet sponges with huge HP pools. Mediums, like Carmania, Alcantara or Greif, they would be balanced with sort of okay HP pool, okay speed and okay damage. And lastly, lights which would also be glass cannons, such as Pinguin or Karmania: they would have small HP pools but would be fast and armed to the teeth with cannons and torpedoes while having small detection ranges. Ships could have specific traits for example Mauretania would be very fast but very weak against torpedo damage, whereas Olympic would have a ramming damage bonus, but she would be somewhat slower than other ships etc etc