Battle damage

Well OK, more of a dockyard accident:

Oops!

When I was preparing for my Millennium Con game, one of the spaceships I had planned on using came off its base (a Carnivoran Lion-class battlecruiser, for those playing at home, but I was using it to proxy the human rebels' forces).  I tried to fix the battlecruiser and, long story short, I was tapping a nail into the underside of the ship with a hammer when I felt a *snap*.  I looked down, and the front of the vessel had totally broken off from the main body:

You can see where the original nail head was glued to the underside.

Which kind of makes me think: Isn't it a poor design for a warship to have such a narrow neck connecting the bridge/CiC/fire control/etc. to the engines, life support and most of the weapons?  An enemy gets in a lucky shot and your battlecruiser is now a battle and a cruiser ....

The battlecruiser in happier times.

So now I need to figure out how to fix my toy.  I know I can't just glue the pieces back together and expect it to hold; the cross-section where the miniature broke is very tiny.  I'm thinking about drilling holes in each part and sticking a pin in there to add strength, but I don't know if that will be enough.  I may have to add some pins/rods to the outside as bracing.  If I just add them to the underside, it won't be noticable, and I can get this ship back in action.  Anyone have any other suggestions?