Quote:Built by the Royal Bretonia Navy to serve as both a symbolic and real display of their military might, this class is the cornerstone of their defenses.

Quote:Liberty government was always aware that their most dangerous potential enemies are not pirates or smugglers, but other Houses. For the case of full-scale war between Houses, the Liberty Navy has a secret weapon that may unexpectedly turn the tide of any battle - a heavily armored and fast Assault Battlecruiser, capable of breaching enemy formations and quickly taking out key capital ships of the opposing side.

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Quote:"A few years before the outbreak of the Tau War, Bretonian military scientists, technologists and engineers were mandated with developing newer, more sophisticated ship designs to revamp the BAF's then aging fleets.

Among the handful of innovations that came out of this brainstorm was the Dunkirk class battleship. With its completely redesigned fusion power plant, updated and expanded weapons & countermeasure suite and thickened reactive armor, the Dunkirk-class battleship surpassed its predecessors in every conceivable way, quickly becoming the backbone of the Bretonian Armed Forces capital ship fleet."

Quote:Dunkirk (Bretonian Battleship)

The result of 8 centuries of development, the Dunkirk is the latest evolution of Bretonia's venerable battleship genus. Each of Bretonia's battleships can be traced back to the berths of New London's Southampton Shipyard, constructed by the Crown shipwrights of BMM. Acting as the monarch's iron fist in matters of offence and defence, the Bretonian battleship has stood a sombre sentinel over Bretonia, guarding the realm from any who might assail it.

In light of the war with Kusari and the current Gallic onslaught, these resolute and fearsome ships have become increasingly scarce due to grievious losses suffered by the Great Fleets. As appropriate to their namesake, the Dunkirk fleets have transformed abysmal loss into Phyrric victory, killing well above their number before falling themselves. The Dunkirk has become a quintessentially Bretonian symbol of undying courage and unyielding defence.

Quote:Rheinland Gunboat

Thought up by the clever engineers at Daumann Heavy Construction when Rheinland was first looking into developing vessels of this size, the qualities of this particular class of gunboat are a rare find across Sirius indeed. Sacrificing speed for power, the Rheinland Gunboat exhibits as thick a hull plating as possible whilst being incredibly small in comparison. A staple ship amongst the Chancellor's fleet, any potential threats would be foolhardy to even think of taking on one of these vessels without a small squadron to back them up.

Whether it was the invasion of these beasts into Liberty around 800 A.S. during the Nomad Wars, or even now with the skirmishes against the Liberty war machine, the Rheinland Gunboat continues to prove to both friend and foe alike that size is certainly not everything.