Endurance Light Cruiser
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The Endurance Class Light Cruiser is a ship design used by the Imperial Navy and Basilikon Astra.[2]
Overview
The Endurance class is a variant of the Endeavour Class Light Cruiser, and STC variant originating from the Voss shipyards.[4] The Endeavour's weapon batteries have been replaced with a lance deck. The two classes are often paired together, for mutual protection, and fire-power. When this is done, the two ships bring the fire-power equivalent of a true cruiser to bear. However, far more Endeavor class ships are produced, so in practice, often three or four Endeavours are grouped with a single Endurance, providing a fearsome pocket of resistance for any enemy Admiral. The Endurance is often seen operating with the Defiant Class Light Cruiser as well as the Endeavour class.[1]
As well as its short range Lances, the Endurance also has a short range weapons battery and two torpedo tubes with which to protect itself. All these systems are short ranged, making the ship vulnerable to a larger, longer ranged ship, with weapons that can out range it as the larger ship can attempt to stay out of range, whilst plastering the hapless Endurance with fire from a standoff range.[1]
Notable Endurance Class Vessels
Source
- 1: Battlefleet Gothic Armada, pg. 18
- 2: Fanatic Online #92 - Vessels of Mars: Ships of the Adeptus Mechanicus, by Nate Montes, Robert Henderson, and Ray Bell.
- 3: Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II
- 4: The Battle for Armageddon (Background Book), pg. 74, 75
