Hades Heavy Cruiser

This article is about the Chaos space vessel. For other uses of Hades, see Hades (disambiguation).

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Hades Heavy Cruiser^[1]

The Hades Class Heavy Cruiser is a long-range gunboat used by the Forces of Chaos.

Overview

The broadside weapons batteries of a Hades pack a hefty long-range punch, and are accompanied by even longer-ranged lances. In ship-to-ship duels, this gives a deadly one-two combo of heavy firepower beating down an enemy ship before the kill shot is delivered by lances, and all from out of range of most enemy ships' weaponry.^[1]

The Hades shines even brighter when leading a group of other long-ranged ships like the Murder- and Carnage-class cruisers, letting them combine their long-range guns into a solid wall of death awaiting any captain foolhardy enough to try to close the gap.^[1]

Technical Specifications^[5]

• Dimensions: 5.2km long, 0.8km abeam
• Mass: 33.5 megatonnes
• Crew: 130,000
• Acceleration: 2.4 gravities

Notable Hades Class Heavy Cruisers

• Contagion^[2]
• Impaler - Servants of the Abyss^[3]
• Injustice^[1]
• Malignus Maximus^[1]
• Optimus Nemesis^[5]
• Warmaker^[1]
• Sword of Brass - Served in the Crusade of Slaughter^[4]

Images

Hades Heavy Cruiser

Sources

• 1: Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, pg. 121
• 2: Execution Hour (Novel), Part One
• 3: Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress, pg. 20
• 4: Avenging Son (Novel) Foreward
• 5: Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus, pg. 109