Editing Chaos Grand Cruiser (section)

=== Carrier ===

==== Retaliator ====

[[Image:BFGARetaliator.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Master of None.]]

A Carrier-type, the class had been in service of Chaos since at least M35, when [[Fail|an entire squadron of ships mutinied]]. The Retaliator carries four Launch Bays carrying a complement of [[Swiftdeath Fighter]]s, [[Doomfire Bomber]]s, [[Dreadclaw|Dreadclaw Assault Pod]]s or more rarely, [[Kharybdis Assault Claw]]s, plus 4 mixed [[Macrocannon|Macro]] and [[Lance Weapon|Lance]]/[[Combi-weapon|Merged Macro]] Battery broadside guns.

The design intention is pretty clear as it lacks firepower. Against large ships, use [[Swiftdeath Fighter|fighters]] and [[Doomfire Bomber|bombers]] to cripple enemy firepower and communications and engines while pounding at their shields. Then either kill it over a long period of time or ignore the de-fanged foe. Against smaller ships, basically the same but with the firepower to quickly kill them while the attack craft does other things instead of engaging those ships. In fact, even against large craft whether or not to leave it to the fighters and bombers or pound at the shields probably depends on what support your own ship has to attack them with.

While in-universe lore describes the Retaliator as a "Master of None" type of ship (versatile, but doesn't excel at all at any one role), the ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'' games decide to give the class ''short-ranged'' mixed broadsides instead. This not only limits its damage output, but also puts it in an odd spot of being a Carrier that has to [[What|close in to even use its guns]].

*'''Length:''' 7.4km
*'''Mass:''' 36.7 megatons; approx
*'''Crew:''' 114,000 crew, 20,000 pilots and support personnel; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.4 gravities max sustainable acceleration