Battlecruisers

### Lances

5 Long Ranged Cruiser (Marauder), 3 Long Ranged Battleship (Disciple), 7 Long Ranged Battleship (Uhlan)

### Attack Craft Bays

12 (Marauder capacity 36), 24 (Disciple capacity 72)

## Defences

### Point Defence Batteries

10.5

Battlecruisers are large fast capital ships intended to lead harassment forces and hunt down hostile super-capital warships. They are designed for speed rather then toughness and use their long ranged weaponry and powerful engines to engage the enemy on their own terms.

The Imperial Trust fields seven different classes of Battlecruisers built on two separate hulls

## Hulls

### Marauder Hull

The most common battlecruiser hull fielded by the Imperial Trust is the Marauder Class, and its variants the Disciple, Uhlan and Husser. This hull is a Dark Age design that fills the classic Battlecruiser role of fast long ranged heavy capital ship.

## Snekkja Class Battlecruiser

### Garrison

Normal: 10 Regiments. Max Capacity: 50 Regiments

## Armament

### Spinal Weapons

1 Super Lance (Snekkja), 1 Ragnarok Cannon (Gjallarhorn)

### Weapons Batteries

13 Long Ranged Battleship (Snekkja), 15 Long Ranged Cruiser (Gjallarhorn)

### Lances

2 Long Ranged Battleship (Snekkja), 4 Long Ranged Cruiser (Gjallarhorn)

## Defences

#### Marauder Class Battlecruiser

The name class of its hull the Marauder Class Battlecruiser is a Fast, Generalist Large Cruiser designed to be able to function in any situation. Its combination of fifteen weapon batteries, five lances and a dozen attack craft bays give it one of the most flexible loadouts in the fleet. These ships are often sent out on long ranged raids where their flexible weapons loadout ensures that they can fight against their foes no matter who they come across. In major battles Marauders are used as part of general harassment forces.

#### Disciple Class Carrier

The carrier variant of the Marauder supports its large attack craft bays with a trio of Battleship scale lances, giving it a formidable long ranged punch. The Disciple is a a Fast, Fleet Carrier, Large Cruiser that is intended to keep far back from the line of battle and rely mostly on its attack craft for most targets, focusing its lances on well armoured targets that attack craft are ineffective against.

#### Uhlan Class Battlecruiser

The Uhlan Class Battlecruiser is a Fast, Hunter, Large Cruiser armed with seven Battleship scale lances. Squadrons of Uhlan Battlecruisers are deployed in major battles to hunt down enemy super-capital ships, using their speed and long range to avoid return fire.

#### Husser Class Battlecruiser

The Husser Class Battlecruiser is a Fast, Killer, Large Cruiser armed with eighteen weapons batteries and a dozen torpedo launchers. The Husser Class Battlecruiser is a skirmisher, designed to engage light enemy forces with its weapon batteries and contribute to massed torpedo volleys aimed at major enemy forces.

### Snekkja Hull

These fragile and expensive battlecruisers use highly volatile Hyper Plasma Reactors to power powerful shielding and spinal weapons mounts.They were designed by the Adeptus Mechanicus of Avernus under the leadership of the legendary Archmagos Tranth.

#### Snekkja Class Battlecruiser

The Snekkja Class Battlecruiser is a Fast Hunter Large Cruiser armed with a spinal Super-Lance, two Battleship scale lances and 13 Battleship scale weapons batteries, a incredible amount of firepower for a battlecruiser. It is designed to hunt down enemy super-capitals with its powerful lances while its weapon batteries engage the enemy skirmishers that will most likely be sent after it.

#### Gjallarhorn class Battlecruiser

The Gjallarhorn Class Battlecruiser is a Fast Large Cruiser armed with a spinal Ragnarok Canon, four lances and 15 weapons batteries, a normal loadout with the exception of the incredibly powerful Ragnarok Cannon.It is designed as a Ragnarok Cannon delivery system, deployed in major battles to best make use of its main gun while the rest of its weapons help keep off enemy skirmishers.

## Night Class Battlecruiser

### Size

6.5km long, 11 km3 volume, (9 Cr, 4.5 BB)

### Garrison

Normal: 9 Regiments. Max Capacity: 45 Regiments

## Armament

### Weapons Batteries

9 Long Ranged Battleship Macrocanon Batteries

## Defences

### Void Shields

4 (Ancile Void Shield, Reflex Void Shield)

### Night Hull

These stealthy battlecruisers are some of the largest stealth ships available to the Imperial Trust, and are used to unleash powerful alpha strikes before retreating.

#### Night Class Battlecruiser

Currently the only variant is the Night Class Battlecruiser, a Stealth Large Cruiser armed with nine Long Ranged Battleship Scale Macrocannon Batteries and 6 Battleship scale Torpedo Launchers. The Night Battlecruiser will fire these weapons while still undetected and reposition before they make impact, hopefully moving far enough to avoid detection before the trajectories are backtracked. In harassment situations the Night will often totally disengage for a period after firing each volley in order to avoid being chased down, while in major battles it relies on the general chaos of the battle to hide its presence.