The problem with that is the same as the Emissary tho. By removing torpedoes (even a portion) your removing damage inflicting weapons for fighters that may or may not be useful. If the torpedoes get dropped they should be removed entirely in favor of launch bays using a standard mix of attack craft (0 torpedoes 3 launch bays).
Personally I would like to see a mix of 2 launch and 4-6 torpedoes as standard and the weapons batteries to be taken out of a fixed forward firing arc as per all other tau designs, an additional 5cm speed should be standard as well if were dreaming here ;-).
These are all things that would fit with the taus preferred method of attack and would make the vessel much more able to actually perform flanking attacks instead of being forced to always close to attack. (not that it actually HAS to close, but really 2wb and 1 lance
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I'm not really opposed to the idea of a mix of fighter only and bomber only bays either, this does sound quite fluffy especially for the almost self sufficient ship that this has turned out to be. I just don't think they should lose anything to bring that ability, if this approach is taken I would rather see it as a way to patch the 5pt price issue.