| Heavy Cruiser | |
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| Product Information | |
| Credits | 500 credits |
| Technical Specifications | |
| Drive | Warp |
| Armament | 
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| Power | 48 |
| Armor | 48 |
| Shield | 4 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Hangar | 8 |
| Shipyard | 12 |
| Research Required | |
| Armour | 12 |
| Plasma | 6 |
| Warp Drive | 4 |
| Shielding | 4 |
Good Against: Fighters, Bombers, Battleships, Dreadnoughts, Titans, and Leviathans (if you have lots of them).
How to counter: Heavy Bombers, Cruisers, and Death Stars.
What is a heavy cruiser?
The Heavy Cruiser is a step between the Cruiser and Battleship, since the game does not have Battlecruisers. They carry heavier guns and armor than a Cruiser but are less armed and armored than a Battleship. The Heavy Cruiser uses Plasma weapons for its main guns. Cruisers and Heavy Bombers work wonders against the Heavy Cruiser.
In Real World History and Science Fiction
The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warshipdesigned for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber). They sat between light cruisers and battlecruisers from just after World War One until the last one, the USS Newport News, was decommissioned in 1975. The last heavy cruiser in existence is the USS Salem.
In the Honorverse, Heavy cruisers (often abbreviated to CA for "Cruiser, Armored") were a class of medium combatants. They were designed for long-term independent action as a system picket, a heavy commerce protection unit and as a screening unit for capital ships. Heavy cruiser mass ranged between 160 and 350 thousand tons.
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