Editing Imperial Navy Battleship

[[File:BFGAEmperor.jpeg|400px|thumb|right|The Posterboy of the game, right there.]]

The biggest and heaviest ship class available to the [[Imperial Navy]], the Battleship is often the flagship of the Admiral during a campaign.  These ships are often the heaviest hitters of any armada,with guns, armor, fighter and bomber support, and torpedoes a-plenty.  Properly supported by its fleet, a Battleship can easily turn the tide in an engagement.  Just don't expect them to get anywhere quickly, due to their relatively ponderous speed.

Many Battleships are centuries or even millennia old, with rolls of honor to match.  The loss of any Battleship is keenly felt by the fleet in question, with each a near-priceless relic that cannot be easily replaced, even by a [[Forge World]] like [[Mars]].

Battleships typically come in three flavors: Ordinance ships (armed with a majority of Macrocannons), [[Lance]] ships (armed mostly with Lances), and Carriers (carrying mostly Fighters and Bombers).

==Classes==
===Carriers===

'''Emperor'''

The poster-ship for Battlefleet Gothic, the Emperor carries four Launch Bays worth fighters and bombers, which are supplemented by a suite of macrocannons for ship-to-ship combat.  This means that the ''Emperor'' can reliably put the hurt on enemies at extreme range, and in-universe accounts for the versatility and self-sufficiency of the class.

In ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'' 1 & 2, the ''Emperor'' has the longest Identification Range of the ship type, shared only by the ''Oberon''-class Battleship and ''Widowmaker''-class escort.

'''Nemesis'''

A modification of the ''Emperor''-class, the ''Nemesis'' adds two more Flight Decks, to a total of six, in exchange for some of its guns.  Another rare class in-universe, as all existing ''Nemesis''were created from damaged ''Emperor''-class ships.  

===Lance Ships===

'''Apocalypse'''

The long-ranged sniper of the Battleships, the Apocalypse carries Nova Cannon and Lances 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, due to the Imperium being unable to replicate the [[Lance]] tech it uses.  

Ironically in ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada '' 1 & 2, the [[Lance]] batteries of the ''Apocalypse'' had a ''[[Derp|shorter]]'' range than its Battleship brethren.  One had to use its '''Overload Lances''' ability to bump up the range of its batteries up, which makes no sense to people, as it should have had those ranges at base.

'''Victory'''

An attempt to recreate the ''Apocalypse''-class with less fancier tech, the ''Victory'' is essentially a ''Retribution'' with its Broadside macros replaced with Lances, and its Torpedo tubes replaced with a Nova Cannon. Much like the ''Apocalypse'', it's good at sniping, and getting rid of pesky escorts.

===Ordinance Ships===

'''Invincible'''

A "fast battleship" class, the ''Invincible'' was designed with the pursuit of Xenos and Chaos raiders in mind. Featuring the speed of a ''Dauntless'' on top of the usual weaponry of a ''Retribution'', the Invincible was quick as it was deadly.

Unfortunately this speed came at the expense of protection, which meant that in a straight battleship duel the ''Invincible''-class crumpled like wet cardboard. Despite this, the ship was deemed successful enough to mass-produce.

'''Retribution'''

What one gets when you cram as many macrocannons on a hull as humanly possible, with some lances and torpedoes for flavor, the Retribution is as close to the Imperial Navy can get to a bruiser, capable of comfortably duking it out with opponents at medium-to-long ranges.  

In ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'' 1 & 2, the ''Retribution'' is actually the fastest Battleship type available to the Imperial Navy (probably as a nod to the Invincible-class).  It also has arguably the highest damage potential of the available Battleships in the games; a full broadside plus successful ram is capable of crippling or even destroying ships the size of Cruisers or smaller.

===Others===

'''Oberon'''

The Hybrid of the Battleships, the ''Oberon'' features heavy Lances, Macrocannons, and two fighter bays, on top of its usual Torpedos.  A somewhat rare class of ship in-universe, the Imperial Navy still considers the Oberon a success due to its self-sufficiency.  While it may not be able to duke it out in a straight fight with other Battleships, its armaments make it a terror to smaller ship classes.

In ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'' 1 & 2, the Oberon shares the same '''Sensors''' ability that the ''Emperor'' has, increasing its Identification Range.  This means that it can work in tandem with its Carrier cousin and support its fighter and bombing runs, while at the same time being able to snipe with its Lances.

==In Battefleet Gothic==



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