New player here. I just unlocked battleships, and I'm trying to figure out what they offer compared to cruisers. If I'm reading the in-game info correctly, it looks like cruisers can carry more weapons, and battleships are cheaper to produce. Is this correct? Is this the only difference between them?

It can also depend on the race you choose- but for the most part, yes. One is cheaper and faster to build, the other is stronger, holds twice as much, and takes that much longer.



Each ship class gets different bonuses towards tonnage for a certain type of module, depending on race. Other bonuses as well. Some ship classes are pointless depending on play style- if peaceful, you don't really need frigate based ships capable of holding lots of bombs.



Hope that helps.

I'm playing United Empire, if it matters. I was relatively confident that I was right in my reading of the info, but a wiki or guide or something I had read said that battleships could take twice the defense payload or some such.



Thanks for clarifying things for me!

Think_Blindly wrote:
It can also depend on the race you choose- but for the most part, yes. One is cheaper and faster to build, the other is stronger, holds twice as much, and takes that much longer.



Each ship class gets different bonuses towards tonnage for a certain type of module, depending on race. Other bonuses as well. Some ship classes are pointless depending on play style- if peaceful, you don't really need frigate based ships capable of holding lots of bombs.



Hope that helps.

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Battleships regardless of race always has one slot more in special modules. So they can hold one Fighter or Bomber more, or one Soldier Invasion modul more, or one Pointdefense modul more.

Duup wrote:
I'm playing United Empire, if it matters. I was relatively confident that I was right in my reading of the info, but a wiki or guide or something I had read said that battleships could take twice the defense payload or some such.



Thanks for clarifying things for me!

Yeah before Disharmony Addon Battleships of all races got a huge defense modul tonnage discount(Cruisers in Health Points modules) but thats not true anymore at least not for Disharmony.

yep since Disharmony, for some races, the boni are quite pointless... like low tech ships with discounts for techs that will come much later... or are quite useless anyway...