"Exalted Subjugation" - Super Battleship

[Trickstick]

So I have been working on the model for the new flagship for Battlefleet Halcyon and thought I would throw the rules in a post. I know that not many people play gothic but I thought I would put them up just to get them right in my head more than anything.

This ship was made after my repeated frustrations at facing the chaos planet killer. While it is not meant to be a direct competitor, it can take plenty of fire and keep going.

I have used the Smotherman Formula to give me a basic points cost to work from, although I have added a bit.

So, the stats:

Attribute	Value	Points Cost
Hits	14	70
Shields	4	40
Turrets	5	25
Armour	6+/5+	42.5
Speed	15cm	3
Turns	45°	---

The weapons:

Armament	Range/Speed	Firepower/Strength	Fire Arc	Points
Port Launch Bays	Furies: 30cm Starhawks: 20cm Sharks: 30cm	4 Squadrons	---	54
Starboard Launch Bays	Furies: 30cm Starhawks: 20cm Sharks: 30cm	4 Squadrons	---	54
Port Weapons Battery	60cm	6	L	27
Starboard Weapons Battery	60cm	6	R	27
Dorsal Lance Battery	60cm	4	L/F/R	52
Prow Torpedoes	Speed 30cm	9	Front	31.5
Plasma Devastator	30-150cm	D3 Nova Cannon	F	75

Notes: The Exalted Subjugation is a slow and ponderous vessel and cannot use Come to a New Heading special orders. For an extra +5 points the Exalted Subjugation may carry squadrons of shark assault boats. If the dice roll for the Plasma devestator is a six (using the old 5/6 = 3 shots), then the ship suffers a thruster critical, without the +1 damage. The weapon still fires that turn as normal.


Formula cost: 501
Adjusted cost: 540

It comes out at slightly more than the planet killer, with less firepower but more armour for more points. This seems to be how chaos and Imperial ships compare to eachother.

[Rolling Thunder]

I don't play Gothic, but in general I've found that highly rare/expensive/extremely powerful weapons should be overcosted, both the compensate for the concentration of force they offer and to represent the difficulty of building super-heavy or higher systems.

[Trickstick]

Maybe up to 540 base then.

Edit: Changed to 540 base cost. Also added a rule where a '6' on the d3 (confusing?) causes a thruster critical, without the +1 damage this would normally incur.