The Light Cruiser class of ships serves as the Imperial Navy’s first foray into large ships of the line, bristling with multiple weapons systems and broadside weapon bays. The two Dauntless variant ships serve as the real meat and potatoes of this class, as they are the most versatile, capable and have the best point cost in terms of what you get in return. The other three Light Cruisers are slightly slower, matching speeds with the larger cruiser ships and lack the heavy prow armor that comes with both Dauntless vessels.
Possessing half the hull points of full-size Battleships, Light Cruisers represent a cheap way of filling out your Navy with more ships for point capping, adding extra meat shield, or just adding more damage output as their armaments are quite formidable.
The Light Cruisers of the Imperial Navy in Battlefleet Gothic Armada II are mostly the same as far as their stats go with two small exceptions. The Dauntless’ are slightly higher performing than the other three, with a faster speed that matches the frigate escorts and heavy armor (83%) on the prow of their ships.
Patch Status: Updated for Patch 7 (v.11218) – July 6th, 2020
Imperial Navy Guide Navigation
- Escorts
- Light Cruisers – [You Are Here]
- Cruiser
- Battle Cruiser
- Grand Cruiser
- Battleship
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Shared Attributes
All five of the Light Cruisers share the same four attributes with no exceptions.
- 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 for each assault action applied.
Changelog
- 7/19/2020 – Updated with new weapon tables and stat formatting.
- 7/6/2020 – Updated stats and reworked descriptions for patch 11218
- 2/4/2019 – Corrected DPS values of Dauntless & Dauntless Mk.II. L Macro Batt weapons had incorrect damage value of 9, supposed to be 6.
*Will be making additional pass soon to correct other references to this info, as this changes order of DPS output of ships.
– Credits to “Ʊ ACE Ʊ” for pointing out this error.
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