CA Spartacus

***\*Note The following is a historical ship profile of one the original Naval Battlezone Warships. This document was taken from the original NBZ Wiki. This ship still exists. The history section of this profile has been updated.***

The ***Spartacus*-Class Heavy Cruiser** is a early publicly used Warship for anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare. She was distinctive of her long hull, door mounted in the front of the bridge, and 2 large torpedo banks mounted on the sides of the ship.

## Characteristics

*Size Category:* Ship5

*Cost:* 11,450

*Weight:* 4406 Tons

*Length:* ?m

*Beam:* ?m

*Height:* 15m

*Draft:* 4m

*Armament:*

* 2 x Triple-Barrel TnT Cannons
* 2 x Double-Barrel TnT Cannons
* 2 x Single-Barrel TnT Cannons
* 1 x Depth Charge Launcher Mk2
* 12 x AA-Guns
* 4 x Mk 1 Twin-Tubed Torpedo Launchers (side mounted)

*Engines:*

* (Originally) 2 x Boiler 2 Engines {estimated}
* (Currently) 3 x Boiler 3 Engines

*Sensors:* Radar, Sonar, Nav, Buoyancy

*Other Features:* Redstone light circuits

## History

The *Spartacus*-Class Heavy Cruiser was one of the 3 large playable ships used during the early days of the original Naval Battlezone. Built as a Third Generation Vehicle (spigot development), the ship was built around newly developed Triple Barrel TNT Cannons. Originally, there was an early version of the Spartacus which this ship design is based on. However a server crash caused that particular design to be lost.

Largest of the public ships made available for use on that server, the ship was not as extensively used as other public ships due to its size. However as development and tastes changed, a new ship was created, a Ship5 sized destroyer named the *Fletcher* which would end up replacing the *Spartacus* as the public ship of it's size category by 2015.

However, it briefly was featured again in early 2016, as an available public ship, until the old shipyard was closed down. The ship was schemed, however, the older version was not. This is a 2013 version when Engine signs were yet to be introduced and Ship signs were slightly different. The 2017 update of the server restored it, and all the original public ships used in the past, to full use as public ships. The NBZ server shutdown in April 2017 was not the end of the ship's usage. The design had been schemed/archive and resurrected in the 2013 Shipyard area for use of Clone NBZ Minecraft servers which obtained the server's codes and data. The resurrection of the NavalCraft code gave a new life to the Spartacus and the other older historical ships. One such server it appeared on was NavalClash. The ships are in shared schemes, can be resurrected, however out date they are.

While no longer active use on 2nd Naval Battlezone, Maximuspayne in 2020 has opened an developmental server named NBZ: High Caliber where a completely new navycraft spigot is being developed. One of it's admins, has restored the Castle and created an updated version was as concept vessel which would function on that server's navycraft spigot.

## Capacities

When fully crewed, a *Spartacus* can be a threat to most ships smaller than itself. Due to age, she is not as well armed as most ships her size. Her forward guns can destroy ships as it approaches. Should a ship enter it's broadsides, crews can use it's pair of Mk1 twin torpedo launchers to wreck enemy ship in 4 torpedo salvo.

The ship is also equipped with secondary cannons and singular Mk2 depth charge mounted in the rear of the ship.

## Tactics

### Anti-Surface action against Large Ships and Small Ships:

The *Spartacus'* cannons can destroy most targets it encounters should the ship be fully crewed. When attacking from any angle, a crew must concentrate fire with the ship's guns and torpedoes.

#### Anti-Submarine action against undersea Vehicles:

Utilizing it's aft depth charges, a *Spartacus* must sail over a enemy ship and drop it's payload of bombs on to it. The ship must maneuver to face it's side torpedo launchers, so they may hit the enemy vehicle.

#### Anti-Aircraft action against flying vehicles:

The *Spartacus'* anti-aircraft guns, focusing fire with a trained gunnery crew, can destroy light and armored air vehicles in close and medium ranges.

## Weaknesses

The *Spartacus* requires a modest crew to be effective. Her construction with wood and iron does make her quite vulnerable to damage from TNT cannons. While She was the first her kind to mount triple barrel cannons, she wasn't designed to withstand these cannons on other ships. Also, her size reduces these risks, and she is not particularly fast so maneuvering her may be challenge in combat against a smaller ship or a faster one. Though heavily armed forward and aft, the ship's broadside torpedo launchers and single barrel TNT cannons, mounted per facing, are the only mid-ship defenses the ship has. Once the torpedo launchers are depleted, the cruiser's single barrel gun is it's only anti-ship weapon aside from it's forward and aft mounted weaponry.

## Notes

* Pictures take of the CA *Spartacus* featured in this article were taken while using 1.7.5. Navalbattlezone Texture pack.

* The ship also features redstone circuitry for it's lighting system, which has been deleted in later generations of ships.
* The engine room of the ship has number of furnaces served as part of the ship's engines. Thou no longer used for that purpose, however a number of these furnaces on the ship acts as additional armor which is a construction method no longer permitted on the server.
* Due to the ship being part of earlier public ship, her size "Ship5" dimensions differs from what is considered standard Ship5. Which means she may not be able to be spawned from a normal dock.
* The original stats for the CA *Spartacus* - Its unclear how this ship was setup for weaponry or capabilities. From a surviving picture, the ship was armed with singular forward mounted Triple TNT Cannon, with three Double TNT Cannons (1 forward, 2 aft), singular Mk3 Depth Charge (aft), twelve AA-Guns, and pair of Twin Torpedo launchers each mounted on either side of broadside of the ship.

## Gallery

NBZ: High Caliber redesign of the CA Sparactus - Which resembles in this rendering as irl Cruiser. This is it's frount view in the Build Creative World.Rear view of the redesigned CA Spartacus.Over head view of both the old and new version of the Ca Spartacus, which new is twice the size of the older ship.