Defence Cruisers

Defence Cruisers are armoured capital ships that have replaced their Warp Drives and Geller fields and much of their supplies with shields and armour. This allows them to function as even better Armoured Cruisers on a tactical level at the cost of not being able to operate outside of friendly systems, and being hard to move between friendly systems. .

The Imperial Trust fields six different classes of Defence Cruisers built on a single hull.

## Castle Class Defence Cruiser

### Varients

Bastion Class Defence Cruiser, Fortress Class Defence Cruiser, Cathedral Class Defence Carrier, Castra Class Defence Cruiser, Snare Class Defence Cruiser

### Garrison

Normal: 6 Regiments, Max Capacity: 24 Regiments

## Armament

### Weapons Batteries

12 Mid Ranged Cruiser (Castle),12 Long Ranged Cruiser (Fortress), 18 Short Ranged Cruiser (Castra)

### Lances

4 Mid Ranged Cruiser (Castle, Fortress, Cathedral), 4 Short Ranged Cruiser (Castra), 8 Mid Ranged Cruiser (Bastion ),

### Other Weapons

12 Haywire Batteries (Snare), 4 Haywire Lances (Snare)

## Defences

### Point Defence Batteries

10.5

The Defence Cruisers of the Imperial Trust are all built around the Castle Hull, which is by far the toughest human cruiser that you know of, and one of the most dangerous.

### Castle Class Defence Cruiser

The name class of its hull the Castle Class Defence Cruiser is a Armoured, Generalist Cruiser designed to bulk up the front line. Its dozen weapon batteries and four lances gives it a balanced punch, able to engage escorts and capital ships with equal ease and threaten super-capitals.

### Bastion Class Defence Cruiser

The Bastion Class Defence Cruiser is an Armoured, Hunter Cruiser intended to engage enemy capital and the lighter super-capital ships. They are invariably deployed in discrete squadrons which are deployed against moderately armoured ships.

### Fortress Class Defence Cruiser

The Fortress Class Defence Cruiser is designed to bulk up your backline, adding the firepower from its eight torpedo launchers to torpedo volleys even as its long ranged weapons batteries deal with skirmishers. Like other torpedo based classes the Fortress has seen a drop in popularity since the discovery of external torpedo launchers.

### Cathedral Class Defence Carrier

The Cathedral Class Defence Carrier is an Armoured, Escort Carrier Cruiser intended to protect its accompanying squadron from attack craft fighters from its dozen attack craft bays. It can also use its secondary battery of four lances to add to the anti-capital firepower of its squadron.

### Castra Class Defence Cruiser

The Castra Class Defence Cruiser is a brawler variant of the Castle, trading range on it weapons for additional firepower. When combined with the toughness of its build this gives you a decent brawl able to survive a bit longer in the thick of things then most cruisers, and therefore inflact more damage.

### Snare Class Defence Cruiser

The Snare Class Defence Cruiser is a design that entirely replaces its conventional weaponry with haywire variants. This allows it to inflcit some damage and major problems to any unshielded ships that get within range, at the cost of being bad at dealing with shielded ships and totally useless against many fleets. The Imperial Trust fields few Snares.