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| − | The battleship is the traditional arm of decision in naval battles – a matter settled by robustness of armour and weight of broadside. They are the most powerful and expensive ships a country can build. | + | The battleship is the traditional arm of decision in naval battles – a matter settled by robustness of armour and weight of broadside. They are the most powerful and expensive ships a country can build. Modern dreadnought battleships, owe their existence to the original ''Dreadnought'', a famous warship finished in 11904, just before the start of the Continental War. Although best known for her unified battery of high caliber guns, the dreadnought had numerous other advances such as the "tunnel drive" protecting once exposed propeller assemblies and a since standard system of gyroscopic gimbals that allows its torus assemblies to correct for some degree of listing. |
===Variants=== | ===Variants=== | ||
Revision as of 02:57, 6 June 2013
General Rules
Battleship
The battleship is the traditional arm of decision in naval battles – a matter settled by robustness of armour and weight of broadside. They are the most powerful and expensive ships a country can build. Modern dreadnought battleships, owe their existence to the original Dreadnought, a famous warship finished in 11904, just before the start of the Continental War. Although best known for her unified battery of high caliber guns, the dreadnought had numerous other advances such as the "tunnel drive" protecting once exposed propeller assemblies and a since standard system of gyroscopic gimbals that allows its torus assemblies to correct for some degree of listing.
Variants
Pre-dreadnought
Battlecruiser
Submarine
Carrier Conversion
Cruiser
Variants
Pre-dreadnought
High Altitude
Submarine
Carrier Conversion
Destroyer
The original Destroyer was secretly built in Sarland, a colony of the Kingdom of Jigash, by rebel forces. She came in the wake of two critical technologies – the Kleinssen Torus design that allowed unprecedented miniaturization of lift units for ships and the gradual development of useful rocket-propelled torpedoes. When completed in 11888, she weighed 2715 tons – almost all of it in its single lift unit and propeller arrays – and sank the battleship Gilgamesh as it held station off the coast. Although it would take many years for torpedoes to become fast and sophisticated enough to strike a moving ship and for torus engineering to be further refined, the sensational sinking of a capital ship to a cobbled-together contraption a fraction her size put every major navy on notice. The Kingdom of Jigash itself became the first to commission a series of its own "destroyers".
Variants
Torpedo Attack
Submarine