RH-D1 "Jormungand" Red Hessian Battleship

RH-D1 "Jormungand" Red Hessian Battleship
Ship Class	Battleship
Built by	Red Hessians
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	1 / 15
Opt. weapon class	10
Max. weapon class	10
Other equipment	1xCM
Hull strength	1,800,000
Max. shield class	10
Cargo space	1,600 units
Nanobots/Batteries	1600/1600
Max. impulse speed	90 m/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
Additional information
Ship price	$495,000,000
Package price	$558,000,000

Despite the great success of the Vidar class, the Red Hessians have found themselves time and again confronted with enemy ships that were simply large enough to overpower an attack force and required a fighting retreat to be successfully combated, by which time the enemy would have regained the initiative. The Jormungand class is the Red Hessian answer to that problem. Designed to be a breakthrough assault vessel, it is the heaviest ship in the Hessian arsenal and was modelled closely after the Bismarck class battleship used by the Rheinland Military. Following the tradition of pushing their equipment to the very limits, Hessian engineers used the excess power provided by the ship's large industrial grade fusion reactors to power a massive cannon built straight into its hull. The effectiveness of said weapon has quickly earned it a nickname appropriate with the ship's name: the Ragnarok.

Handling

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

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Review The Jorm has to be one of the best capital ships in Disco. It feels like a much bigger ship when you take it out for the first time. The handling doesn't really match it's small size. But apart from that, it's all good. Being such a small ship, other ships need to get in close to land hits. Despite being so small, this ship packs a punch. The heavy guns are restricted to one firing 180° forward, and two firing 180° to the rear. This means that the ship fires all three to the side. Add to that a forward gun, and you have a killing machine. The secondary hard points have very good placings. Nice and tight together, and covering all angles. Snubs will have to take punishment if they want to deal some. Against it's main opponents, Turtles and Legates, it's best to keep them at arms length. You won't last long if you try close combat against such enemies. Keep distance, keep strafing and keep pounding! Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by Lucky Luke

Hardpoints

• 1 Battleship Forward Gun
• 3 Battleship Heavy Turrets
• 4 Battleship Primary Turrets
• 8 Battleship Secondary Turrets
• 1 Battleship Shield

Purchase Includes

Spoiler:
1 "Ragnarok-class" Red Hessian Forward Gun ($48,000,000) 1 Advanced Deep Scanner ($82,250) 1 Battleship Positron Shield ($15,000,000)

Availability

Spoiler: Buying Locations
Base Owner System Location Wolfsburg Shipyard Red Hessian Guard Omega-54 Border Worlds