Bretonia "Dunkirk"-class Battleship

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Bretonia Battleship
Ship Class	Battleship
Built by	Bretonia
Tech Column	Bretonia Naval Ships
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	0 / 14
Opt. weapon class	9
Max. weapon class	10
Other equipment	1xCM
Hull strength	800,000
Max. shield class	10
Cargo space	1,600 units
Nanobots/Batteries	1600/1600
Max. impulse speed	90 m/s
Max. turn speed	10.31 deg/s
Max. thrust speed	Thruster not available
Max. cruise speed	350 m/s
Power output	8,000,000 u
Power recharge	260,000 u/s
Hyperspatial Modules	3 Hyperspatial Modules
Docking Bays	2 Docking Bays
Additional information
Ship price	$460,000,000
Package price	$475,582,700

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.

Handling

• This ship is too large to use docking bays, it must use mooring points.

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Review This ship is also somewhat of a c-c-combo breaker. While the rest of the Bretonia Capital ships fall into the 'heavy' subclass of each of their respective major ship class, this ship falls into the Medium Battleship category, taking qualities and deficiencies from both the Heavy and Light battleship subclasses. The Bretonia Battleship has odd turret hardpoints, with 4 clustered closely in the back. Despite suggestions against, It in fact CAN be used in an anti-fighter/bomber role as the Solaris turrets reach acceptable range to attack bombers while its maneuverability force bomber pilots to get closer to land hits accurately. One of its major downsides is its lower armor rating. It can also be used in an Anti-Cap role with the same strafing technique as used in the Liberty Dreadnaught, it can defeat battleships of the Heavy class also with a bit of luck and appropriate skill. As for defeating Light Battleships, Larger Output/Input enables you to charge them, absorbing at least -some- damage while using your superior output to whittle down the opponent into nothing. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by Camtheman

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Review This ship is really worthy serving the Queen. She is a medium class battleship and she can be deadly if used properly. A skilled captain would exploit her best qualities: small size (but moderate armor), high agility and smart turret placement. Due to her small size and a thin forward and back profile, this ship can effectively evade enemy's fire by strafing. Because she's so agile, she can also chase smaller capitals and shoot at them while evading their fire by strafing and turning. She can also turn away from a bigger opponent quickly and snipe it with Pulses and Mortars (or Cerberuses) while strafing. It is recommended that you stay 2K+ away from a more powerful target if you want to destroy it and not be destroyed. This ship's biggest, and probably only flaw, is that she has just 7 light turrets. She can evade SNACs and make bombers come closer, but why would you need them closer, if you can barely scratch them with your Solarises? If you want to buy this ship, I recommend you to mount 5 Secondaries and 2 Flaks on her, so you can deflect missiles and torpedoes, and deal some damage to those who fired those torpedoes. With turret steering, you'll be able to beat up to 4 bombers alone! On the medium turret slots, you should put 3 Tertiaries and a Pulse. All the medium turrets can fire forward and backward. All 3 heavy slots can fire forward and 2 of them can fire backward. The heavy turret placed on the ship's head can fire about 340°. The sides, the top and the bottom is also well covered. I would recommend you to put 2 Mortars (or Cerbs) and a Cerb on the heavy slots. I wouldn't recommend use of missiles in 4.86, because they can be easily deflected by Flaks and CMs and they use a lot of energy. With this setup and, of course, some skill, you will be able to blow up almost anything that stands on your way to fame and glory. I'm sure that a champaign bottle shattered when it hit the first Dunkirk's hull. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by Debeli boda

Hardpoints

• 3 Battleship Heavy Turrets
• 4 Battleship Primary Turrets
• 7 Battleship Secondary Turrets

Purchase Includes

Spoiler:
1 Advanced Deep Scanner (82,250) 1 Battleship Positron Shield ($15,000,000)

Availability

Spoiler: Buying Locations
Base Owner System Location Southampton Shipyard BMM New London Bretonia