Sovereign Battleship

Triple heavy guns bombard land and sea from extreme range.

NavalNaval unitsTier 3Ship

Stats

Tier: Tier 3
Cost: 1700 metal
Build time: 70 s
Hit points: 3200
Armor: Ship
Speed: 1.4 tiles/s
Unit cap: 5
Vision: 10 tiles
DPS: 72
Range: 14 tiles

Requires

Radar Station

Weapons

Main battery

GroundShips

Damage: 120 ×3
Reload: 5 s
Range: 14 tiles (min range 2.5)
DPS: 72

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Damage multiplier by armor class

Light

×1.20

Medium

×1

Heavy

×1

Structure

×1.60

Ship

×1.20

Submarine

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Aircraft

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The Sovereign Battleship is the Tier-3 capital ship: three heavy guns that bombard land and sea from extreme range with big splash, and the largest hit-point pool in the game. It needs a Radar Station and an Advanced Naval Yard.

How to use

Park it off an enemy coast with a scout providing vision and level the base: turrets, factories and armies alike. It has a minimum range and no anti-air or anti-submarine weapons, so it never sails alone: a Frigate against aircraft, a Destroyer against submarines. It is expensive enough that losing one can decide a match.

Anecdotes

USS Missouri fired her sixteen-inch guns in anger for the last time in 1991, forty-seven years after she was launched. Each shell weighed about as much as a small car, and she could throw one twenty miles.