User blog comment:Techterror/What do you want about ships and components?/@comment-2601:19B:A00:13F8:59EE:DB38:7EA8:CF3-20180909135031/@comment-88.215.47.226-20180910131306

For weapons, I would say you will want drone weapons. Drone weapons do well against both Light Cruisers and Battle Cruisers (laser weapons have 16.7% less damage to Standard Hull Types and missile weapons do 20% less damage to Light Hull Type). Kinetic weapons, while also having a higher damage, have a worse accuracy, which may cause problems due to the evasion present on light cruisers. However, you could argue for Kinetic weapons because they have higher damage (higher armour pierce and 14.3% higher damage to Standard Hull Types compared to Drone weapons).