Overview
The Styx is a fleet support vessel. Its huge launch bays provide much-needed Attack Craft for Chaos fleets, and its long-range lances and weapons batteries pack an impressive punch. All of this allows the Styx to hang back and rip apart enemies at distance as its fellows close in.[1]
Originally used throughout Segmentum Obscurus and Ultima Segmentum during M32-M33, the Styx was eventually phased out in favor of new Battlecruisers coming out of Mars. It lives on in the fleets of Chaos, which greatly appreciate its abilities: Styx class ships fought against the Imperium in no fewer than thirty-nine major fleet engagements during the Gothic War.[1]
Notable Styx Heavy Cruisers
Images
Sources
- 1: Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Ships of the Gothic Sector, [Needs Citation] (accessed 2010.11.17)
- 2: Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, pg. 120
- 3: Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pg. 13
- 4: Champions of Fenris - A Codex: Space Wolves Supplement - The War of the Wolf
- 5: The Lords of Silence (Novel) by Chris Wraight, Chapter Ten
| Chaos Space Fleet | |
|---|---|
| Battleships | Carrion • Despoiler • Desolator • Desecrator • Juggernaut • Battle Barge • Planet Killer |
| Grand Cruisers | Retaliator • Repulsive • Executor • Furious |
| Heavy Cruisers | Styx • Hades • Acheron • Hellfire • Hecate |
| Cruisers | Devastation • Murder • Carnage • Slaughter • Inferno • Emasculator • Hellbringer • Pestilaan • Strike Cruiser • Daemonship |
| Escorts | Idolator • Infidel • Harrier • Iconoclast • Apostate • Planetary Assault Barque • Soulcage Slaveship |
| Attack Craft | Swiftdeath Fighter • Hag Interceptor • Doomfire Bomber • Thunderhawk • Stormbird • Heldrake • Fire Lord • Stormcrow Assault Boat • Dreadclaw Assault Boat • Kharybdis Assault Claw • Drop Pod |