Editing The Crusaders (section)

==Fleet==

The Crusaders were never a Legion with a great deal of expertise in void-warfare. For the Legion, a ship was a tool, a means of moving men and material from world to world and providing firepower from orbit to smash enemy ground targets asunder. The battleships, cruisers, frigates and gunships of the Crusaders were thus used principally as transports and fire support, breaking through weak points in enemy fleets to deposit their cargo on the planetary surface and then remaining on station to provide thunder from heaven as the situation demanded.

The Legion had very few heavy Warships, though those they did have, such as the Infernus-class Battleships ''Koenigsraum'' and ''Graeffenberg'' were famous as mighty engines that would break a hole so the Legion could push through deploy onworld. Their flagship was the mighty Gloriana Class battleship '''Hohenstetchen''', named after a mythical king of Sturmundrang who ruled before the atmosphere had gone toxic. The Hohenstetchen had a number of its gun batteries removed in order to add additional generators for its mighty Macro-Lances, one volley of which would overload all the shields and cripple the hull of a Retribution-class Battleship. The Hohenstetchen was the ultimate linebreaker and time and again it would punch a hole through even the mightiest void defenses. It would be lost in the First Dark Crusade with all hands.