Editing Imperial Navy Cruiser (section)

===Ordinance-Boat===

====Dominator====

[[File:Dominator.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The most well-named class since Planet Killer. Your pocket Retribution, right here.]]

Another variant based on the ''Lunar''-class hull, the ''Dominator'' is essentially [[Awesome|a ''Retribution''-class Battleship in miniature]] (minus the range of course). The ship was originally designed as a long-range support vessel, using its massive Nova Cannon from behind fleet battle lines. In this function, however, it never really excelled and only gained a handful of victories to its name.

It was never truly appreciated by its crew(s) until the start of the Gothic War. In a particular battle, a single Dominator, the Hammer of Justice, found itself between two Chaos cruisers. The Dominator's true role was found that day when the Hammer of Justice gave both of its rivals a full broadside to the face and crippled them in the one volley.

Armed with [[Macrocannon]]s with a prow-mounted [[Nova Cannon]] thrown in, the class was designed primarily around planetary assaults, and in-universe was rarely seen in fleet actions. It can still provide support, however, and any ship that gets within range of a ''Dominator'' is guaranteed to get hurt badly.

One of these, the Depth of Fury, nearly killed the Terminus Est.

In ''Battlefleet Gothic: Armada'' 1 & 2, the ''Dominator'' can wreak havoc on enemy fleets with its regular armaments alone. Throw in its stasis bomb and disruption bomb abilities, and a properly-placed squadron of ''Dominators'' can slow enemies, strip their shields, and THEN blast them to kingdom come with the Nova Cannon.

*'''Length:''' 5km
*'''Mass:''' 30 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 90,000 crew; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.5 gravities max sustainable acceleration

====Tyrant====

[[File:TyrantCruiserBGA.png|300px|right|thumb|Meet the pinnacle of false advertising.]]

The ''Tyrant'' was initially conceptualized as a long-ranged plasma ordinance boat. At the end of the 38th Millennium, a new technique was found for extending the range of [[Proteus Plasma Projector|plasma-based weaponry]]. The super-fired plasma weapons developed by Adeptus Mechanicus Artisan-Magos Hyus N'dai were built into the Tyrant class cruiser. In the 39th Millennium, the Tyrant class was popular, due to its superior range over other cruiser classes. It was theorised that the Tyrant would be able to deliver both long-range fire, and short-range fire, of the same power.

Unfortunately, [[Meme|reality is often dissapointing]], as design compromises (to not tax the plasma reactor) led to it to being armed instead [[Fail|with an ineffective mix of short-ranged batteries and long-ranged plasma macrocannon]]. The Navy is still trying to make the class work, but now has to scavenge the replacements to the short-ranged weapons either from enemy vessels or the odd [[Space Hulk]]. This is stupid, just use a different short-ranged weapon that takes comparatively little energy like railguns or missiles and devote the rest to the long-range plasma cannons to make up for their lack of numbers. Or use this as a lesson to change the Dictator by replacing its weapons with long-range plasma and abandon the Tyrant. And bring back the Hades, which had no problems and the Tyrant is doing a very bad job of replacing.

The ship is popular with [[Rogue Trader]]s, who mostly just strip out the plasma weaponry to maximize all that reactor power.

*'''Length:''' 5km
*'''Mass:''' 27.2 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 90,000 crew; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.4 gravities max sustainable acceleration