Lizard Class Cruiser

Overview

Statistics

Tech	Mass	Fuel	Cargo	Crew	Engines	Beams	Torps	Bays	MC	Dur	Trit	Moly	Special
4	160	330	290	430	2	4	3		190	42	81	30	Cloak

Built By

The Lizard Alliance

Abilities

• Has cloaking device (8 fuel/turn for cloaking)

• Range (ly):

Full / Cloaked: 444

Full / Uncloaked: 525

Empty / Cloaked: 772

Empty / Uncloaked: 1060

• Fuel consumption per lightyear:

Uses about 50% more fuel than the Saurian Class Light Cruiser

Full / Cloaked: 0,74kt

Full / Uncloaked: 0,63kt

Empty / Cloaked: 0,43kt

Empty / Uncloaked: 0,31kt

• Ground Attack:

Can capture fully defended planets and starbases with up to 150.000 colonists

• Torpedoes:

Can produce up to 96 torpedoes

• Combat in Lizard hands:

will destroy the Firecloud Class

will destroy an equally equipped D7 Coldpain Class but will be damaged

will most likely destroy the patriot class light carrier but will be severely damaged (mark7 torps)

Notes

The Lizard Class Cruiser is the workhorse of the Lizard fleet. It has a very large cargo hold and can cloak, making it ideal for dropping clans on enemy planets (remember the 30:1 Lizards ground combat ratio!). However, the downside to this ship is its fuel consumption; it really is a gas guzzler, and it can be hard to refuel deep in enemy territory. As such, always make it part of a convoy if you're invading someone, and a better choice for freighter robbing would be the Saurian, which is lighter and consumes less fuel at the cost of 1 torpdeo tube. You could use the Reptile too, but it's small fuel tank and tendency to get captured makes the Saurian ideal.

As far as all-around warships go, this ship is OK, and at tech 4 it's a strong ship to build early in the game. However, later on it won't stand up to most enemy ships, and it would be better to build T-Rexes as war ships.