Editing Imperial Navy Battleship (section)

===Lance Ships===

====Apocalypse====

[[File:BFGAApocalypse.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Reach out and hurt somebody.]]

The long-ranged sniper of the Battleships, the Apocalypse carries a [[Nova Cannon]] and [[Lance Weapon|Lance]]s a-plenty, this makes it the bane of small fast ships. In-universe it's one of the oldest Battleship designs available, and fairly rare, so much so that it is widely believed to be the precursor of the Retribution-class battleship.

Due to the Imperium being unable to replicate the [[Lance Weapon|Lance]] tech it uses, the rarity is further exasperated. Some naval strategists believe that these ships were created to deal with the threat posed by the growing number of Grand Cruisers and battleships from the [[Eye of Terror]], a role at which the Apocalypse excels.

The Apocalypse has a small weapons battery on its dorsal section, and banks of lances down the port and starboard hull. Normally the weapons batteries would be used to collapse the shields of an enemy ship, before the lances rip into the ship directly. Instead, the Apocalypse uses its [[Dick|big dick]] [[Nova Cannon]] when closing in on the enemy.

Ironically in ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada '' 1 & 2, the [[Lance Weapon|Lance]] batteries of the ''Apocalypse'' had a ''[[Derp|shorter]]'' range than its Battleship brethren. One has to use its '''Overload Lances''' ability to bump up the range of its batteries up, which makes no sense as it should have had those ranges at base. Even odder is that this can't even be excused by the needs of game balance, as the stance that activates its overloaded lances is the one that should always be used with lance boats anyway. The only possible justification is that if a ship's deck is disabled it's locked out of stances, which is... ''incredibly'' dumb.

*'''Length:''' 8-12km
*'''Mass:''' 59 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 160,000 crew; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 1.9 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx

====Victory====

[[File:VictoryClass.jpg|300px|right|thumb|When you have a broadside of lances, you are bound to vapourize a fool or two.]]

Another retrofitteed class of Battleships.

An attempt to recreate the ''Apocalypse''-class with less fancier tech, the ''Victory'' is essentially a ''Retribution'' with its Broadside macros replaced with [[Lance]]s, and its [[Torpedo]] tubes replaced with a [[Nova Cannon]].

Its exact origin nonetheless remains unclear, as the [[Techpriest|Techpriests]] of Mars refuse to disclose the classes records due to the ''obvious'' and borderline [[Extra Heresy|heretical attempts at modifying the Retribution.]] The Victory-class is known to have existed as far back as the [[Great Crusade]].

Much like the ''Apocalypse'', it's good at sniping, and getting rid of pesky escorts.

It looks like it has replaced the parent archetype’s dorsal weapons batteries with lances, so in raw firepower it perhaps matches or even surpasses the Apocalypse if not range.

*'''Length:''' 8-12km
*'''Mass:''' 61 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 158,000 crew; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 1.9 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx