The Imperial Nay’s Battleships represent the Imperium’s endgame when it comes to their naval armadas. Being the biggest, toughest, most powerfully armed ships excluding unique variants, Typically only one is fielded in an engagement if at all, as the Admiral’s flagship. Slow and lumbering, they still require the support of a fleet to take control of a battlefield, but when they are brought to bear, can lay waste to multiple cruiser sized ships while having the longevity to slug it out long term with other equally sized ships.
As is common in the Imperial Navy, some of their Battleships come with the ramming Spurs, which for a line ship’s case, adds 40% ramming damage. Since this is based of ship size, the spur equipped battleships become capable of cleaving smaller cruisers clean in two with a well placed full burn. Combined with the possibility of massive torpedo spreads and bomber waves, an Imperial Navy Battleship can output massive damage within a short time frame when things are timed properly, quickly crippling an otherwise brand new enemy ship.
As the “command and control” vessels, two of the Imperial Battleships come quipped with the Sensors upgrade, only otherwise carried by the single purpose, fragile and small Cobra Widowmaker. Having a sensor equipped Battleship flying in a formation of other ships can help with spotting targets at extended range and allowing your ships to get several salvos in before the enemy can return fire.
Patch Status: Updated for Patch 7 (v.11218) – July 7th, 2020
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Shared Stats
The Battleships are the top tier of the normal fleet ships, possessing the strongest hulls and shields of the Imperial Navy, an amazing amount of defense turrets to make short work of torpedoes and squadrons and troops to soak up assault actions for quite some time. All of this immense firepower and armor comes at the cost of the slowest speeds both as far as main engines go and rotation, while also being locked out of high energy turns. It might be harder to get broadsides facing enemies in a timely manner, but the long ranges of the carried weapons helps counter the lack of maneuverability while the full force of their damage potential means they will feel it in spades once those weapons are brought to bare.
| - HIT POINTS – | – SYSTEMS – | – CREW – |
|---|---|---|
| Shield: 800 | ID Range: 9,000* | Bravery: 0 |
| Armor (Front): 83* | Speed: 120* | Troops: 18 |
| Armor (Sides): 67 | Rotation: 4 | Troop Damage: 1-2 |
| Armor (Rear): 67 | Defense Turrets: 18 | Assault Crit Chance: 10% |
| Hull: 2,400 | Lightning Strike Actions: 3 | Boarding Actions: 6 |
*Shared Stat Exceptions:
- Oberon & Emperor – 67 Front Armor, 13,500 ID Range
- Retribution – 160 Speed
Shared Attributes
The Imperial Navy’s Battleships are definitely the most diverse when it comes to special abilities. The Retribution carries one of the ramming spurs found quite commonly among ships of the line. The Emperor and Oberon both carry the Sensors perk that increases identification range, the only vessels outside of the Cobra Widowmaker Destroyer to do so.
Finally and most significantly, the Overload Lances special ability is entirely unique in the whole of the Imperial armada to the Apocalypse class Battleship.
- Plasma Reactor: Gives access to Imperial maneuvers.
- Dedicated: The ship isn’t submitted to any basic bravery bonus or penalty.
- Average Troop Efficiency: Deals 1-2 troop damage per assault action.
- Brutal Strike: 10% chance to deal +1 troop damage per assault action.
- Low Maneuverability: Cannot perform High Energy Turn
- Sensors: +4,500 Identification range (Emperor & Oberon)
- Overload Lances: Lock On stance gives lances an additional +13,500 range instead of only +4,500 *Apocalypse Only
Survey 1: Which Battleship do you pick most often to lead your fleets?
- 25% Emperor
- 7% Oberon
- 40% Rertibution
- 12% Apocalypse
- 10% Depends too heavily on situation to say/Other. (comments appreciated)
- 6% I don’t use Battleship sized vessels
1,523 people have voted in this poll.
Changelog
- 7/25/2020 – Weapon Tables 2.0
- 7/7/20 – Updated stats and reworked descriptions for patch 11218
- 2/21/19 – Fixed Emperor’s description & Battleships prow armor.
credits to: Kraizy, Dent - 2/18/19 – Corrected armament for Emperor. Does not have torpedoes
credits to: Le Petit Lapin - 2/5/19 – Corrected speed values
credits to: AYS
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