Alternative weapon selections for ships

Right now we know that we have about 15 ships for super melee.  If stardock is constrained on resources to create more, I propose alternative weapon selections for each ship.

As an example the alternate weapon set for the human cruiser would say replace the primary nuke missile with a forward laser and add a temporary shield like the sc2 yehat terminator instead of the point defense for the secondary.

By doing this you can milk 2 different playstyles out of every ship and alien model.  Without creating wholly new alien races an ships the number of playstyles jumps to 30 instead of the limited 15.

I think this is lower cost solution to adding more play diversity with lesser resources.