Create a New Warship Class

In order to create a new ship class, you need to be familiar with the Warship rules, which explain all of the building blocks which players can use to create their own custom warships. The following page explains how to use the Warship class and Squadron templates in order to create custom ships quickly and easily.

## How to use

### Naming ship classes

On this page, you will first create a template for your **warship class**. Classes represent a design pattern which will be repeated over and over again. They are often, but not always, referred to by the first ship in that class. For example, the *Lexington*-class aircraft carrier is named after the USS *Lexington*, the first ship of the class commissioned.

To take a fictional example, the USS *Enterprise* (NCC-1701) from Star Trek is a *Constitution*-class heavy cruiser. It can be inferred that the first ship of that class was called the USS *Constitution*.

### Naming individual ships

When writing a ship's name, it is traditional in English to *italicize* the ship's name, but not its prefix. The name of the famous fictional starship from Star Trek is therefore USS *Enterprise*, not *USS Enterprise* or USS Enterprise.

#### Ship prefix

Ship prefixes are combinations of letters placed before a ship's name which identify the military service to which the ship belongs. In our world, ships which belong to the US Navy bear the prefix USS, which stands for "United States Ship." In Star Trek, the prefix USS stands for "United Star Ship" or "United Space Ship," and denotes that the ship belongs to Starfleet. The prefix, "HMS" used by ships of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy means, "Her Majesty's Ship."

Not every nation needs to place a prefix before their ship's name. Famously, the French Navy does not use prefixes at all on any of their ships. As a result, the French aircraft carrier is referred to just as the *Charles de Gaulle*. When a prefix is needed, such as when interfacing with NATO, the prefix FS (French Ship) is used.

### How to use the template

When you use the create box above, you will be presented with this template:

```
{{ Warship class

<!-- Mounts -->

<!-- Modifiers -->

<!-- DO NOT EDIT -->
}}

```

Fill out all of your ship class' information. Name the class using the convention named above (*Lexington*-class aircraft carrier), or your own. Then, select the ship's hull type among the available options, such as Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, etc.

Then, name your ship's role. This refers to what the ship is used for. For example, a frigate with a heavy missile loadout might be referred to as a Missile Cruiser. A destroyer which carries shuttles might be called a Shuttle Destroyer. A battleship with an armor upgrade might be called a Heavy Battleship. A battleship with a speed upgrade might be called a Fast Battleship, and so on.

Then, put your nation's flag. Please use the format, File.extention, omitting any brackets or "File:". This will break the template. Then, add the class' total point defense once you know that number.

#### Adding mounts

Mounts are templates which are fully done for you. They are named just like they are on the ship mounts list, so like this:

```
{{Turreted Artillery Battery}}
{{Casemate Gun Battery}}

```

Put them into the template under "Primary" and "Secondary" mounts.

#### Modifiers

If your mounts modify the ship's speed or armor in some way, put that in as a modifier. Putting "1" adds 1 to these stats. Putting "-1" subtracts 1 from these stats.

## Creating an individual ship

Once you have created your ship class, you can now easily create individuals of that ship class anywhere on the wiki. To do so, open template brackets ( {{ ) and type the name of your ship class. The template works as follows:

```
{{Rhenburg-class cruiser|KRS ''Rhenburg''}}

```

Creates:

The template also has more features. It can keep track of a ship's damage taken and its ammunition, like so:

```
{{Ship class name|Individual Ship Name|Damage Taken (this number will be subtracted from the ship's health|Ammunition}}

```

## Squadron

Squadrons refer to large groups of ships.

The following template can be used to group ships together if there are a lot of them:

```
{{ Squadron

}}
```