THE SHIPS OF THE LINE OF BATTLE
FROM POCKET BATTLESHIPS TO GRAND CRUISERS
POCKET BATTLESHIPS
The light or pocket battleships were products of the Shalom shipyards and were a blatant tool of the rim worlds for beating the treaty restrictions regarding vessel weights placed upon them to prevent them building standard battleships.
Noah Ben Shalek regarded his latest design with great sadness... For those who knew how to listen, it was clear that the shalom sector was close to secession.. Noah knew that the next time he saw his creation it would be fighting in the imperial navy and attempting to subjugate his home system.. This had been his first commission for the imperial navy... The navy yards at Golgotha could not handle a ship of this size.. So they had come to Shalom and to Noah for something new...
Low budget they had said.. Big and powerful they had said.. What they had really wanted was a battleship for cruiser prices... Noah had almost obliged... The core of his idea had been the engine design given to him by Inquisitor Van Hooram in part payment for the immolator... Using the enormous energy output of these engines Noah had redesigned an imperial lunar class to fit the navy requirements... Greater hull strength, increased main battery power, dorsal and ventral weapons, huge armoured prow, forward firing torpedoes..
He had taken his designs to navy 250 at Golgotha and the yard commissioner had asked.. "Is the design good?? Where are the plans..." Noah had replied "Good commissioner.?? Why the design I have in my pocket could master a battleship" And that is how the name had been borne... The "Masters of Battle" class pocket battleship
THE MASTERS OF BATTLE CLASS
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TYPE/HITS |
SPEED | TURNS |
SHIELDS | ARMOUR |
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295 |
POCKET BB 10 |
20 |
45 |
3 |
6+/5+ |
3 |
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| ARMAMENT | RANGE/SPEED |
FIREPOWER/STR |
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| PORT WEAPON BATTERY | 45 |
6 |
LEFT |
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| PORT LANCE BATTERY | 45 |
2 |
LEFT |
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| STARBOARD WEAPONS BATTERY | 45 |
6 |
RIGHT |
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| STARBOARD LANCE BATTERY | 45 |
2 |
RIGHT |
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| DORSAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| VENTRAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| PROW TORPEDOES | 30 |
6 |
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| A critical hit to the dorsal weapons position disables both dorsal and ventral weapon positions | ||||||||
REVENGE CLASS POCKET BATTLESHIP
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TYPE/HITS |
SPEED | TURNS |
SHIELDS | ARMOUR |
TURRETS |
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300 |
POCKET BB 10 |
25 |
45 |
3 |
6+/5+ |
3 |
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| ARMAMENT | RANGE/SPEED |
FIREPOWER/STR |
FIRE ARC |
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| PORT WEAPON BATTERY | 60 |
8 |
LEFT |
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| STARBOARD WEAPONS BATTERY | 60 |
8 |
RIGHT |
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| DORSAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| VENTRAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| PROW TORPEDOES | 30 |
9 |
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| A critical hit to the dorsal weapons position disables both dorsal and ventral weapon positions | ||||||||
HEROES OF BATTLE CLASS POCKET BATTLESHIP
The heroes of battle class was a compromise between the big guns school and the NC school of thought. The big guns group which was at the time very powerful demanded a ship that could not only engage frontally but add to it's side armament. The Otto Von Bismarck the first of the class was the first experimental ship to be produced.
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TYPE/HITS |
SPEED | TURNS |
SHIELDS | ARMOUR |
TURRETS |
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280 |
POCKET BB 10 |
20 |
45 |
2 |
5+ |
2 |
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| ARMAMENT | RANGE/SPEED |
FIREPOWER/STR |
FIRE ARC |
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| PORT WEAPON BATTERY | 60 |
8 |
LEFT |
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| STARBOARD WEAPONS BATTERY | 60 |
8 |
RIGHT |
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| DORSAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| VENTRAL LANCE BATTERY | 60 |
2 |
F/L/R |
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| PROW WEAPONS BATTERY | 45 |
6 |
F/L/R |
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| A critical hit to the dorsal weapons position disables both dorsal and ventral weapon positions | ||||||||
THE GRAND CRUISERS
The grand cruisers were the precursor to the battlecruisers of the modern imperial navy, almost rivalling battleships in the weight of firepower they could lay down and their ability to absorb punishment. The grand cruisers fell out of favour when the means for constructing sufficiently powerful engines was lost (more recently built engines were incapable of attaining a useful combat speed) A few ancient grand cruisers can still be found in the imperial fleet but they are largely obsolete in modern terms.
The furious Grand cruisers were the first ships to be built with the armoured prow and hence the first design to link the old and new design styles.. When the empire recognised the effectiveness of attack craft, the technicians of the shalom shipyards decided to convert the furious and her sister ships on service in the sector to attack craft carriers.. Although some of the class defected to the call of chaos several still give good service in the imperial navy..
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TURNS |
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TURRETS |
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GC 10 |
20 |
45 |
2 |
6+/5+ |
3 |
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FIREPOWER/STR |
FIRE ARC |
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| PORT LAUNCH BAYS | FIGHTERS |
3 |
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| STARBOARD LAUNCH BAYS | FIGHTERS |
3 |
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| DORSAL LANCE BATTERY | 30 |
3 |
L/F/R |
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| PROW WEAPONS BATTERY | 60 |
6 |
L/F/R |
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| ORDNANCE TYPE | CAPACITY |
| Fighter/bomber | 11 squads |
| Hawkeye | 1 squads |
POINTS |
TYPE/HITS |
SPEED |
TURNS |
SHIELDS | ARMOUR |
TURRETS |
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230 |
GC 10 |
20 |
45 |
2 |
5+ |
3 |
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ARMAMENT |
RANGE /SPEED |
FIREPOWER/STR |
FIRE ARC |
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| PORT WEAPONS BATTERY | 45 |
14 |
L |
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| STARBOARD WEAPONS BATTERY | 45 |
14 |
R |
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| DORSAL LANCE BATTERY | 30 |
3 |
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| PROW TORPEDO TUBES | 60 |
6 |
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