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)
• Ranges (ly):

 * Full / Cloaked: 444  
 * Full / Uncloaked: 525
 * Empty / Cloaked: 772
 * Empty / Uncloaked: 1060

• Ground Attack:

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

• Combat with Mk4 Torpedoes (in lizard hands):

 * will destroy any Firecloud

• Combat with Mk7 Torpedoes

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.