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

Description

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.

Performance

• 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:
  • Full / Cloaked: 0,74kt
  • Full / Uncloaked: 0,63kt
  • Empty / Cloaked: 0,43kt
  • Empty / Uncloaked: 0,31kt
  • Uses about 50% more fuel than the Saurian Class Light Cruiser

• Ground Attack:
  • Can capture fully defended planets and starbases with up to 150.000 colonists

• Torpedoes:
  • Can produce up to 96 torpedoes

• Mines
  • Will survive a minehit without slowing down (Damage at 62%)
  • Will survive two minehits

• Can tow

Combat in Lizard hands

Equally equipped ships:

• will destroy
  • Aries Class Transport
  • Arkham Class Frigate (Heavy Damage) (Federation)
  • Armored Transport
  • B200 Class Probe
  • B222 Destroyer
  • B41 Explorer
  • Banshee Class Destroyer
  • Bohemian Class Survey Ship
  • BR4 Class Gunship
  • BR5 Kaye Class Torpedo Boat
  • Bright Heart Class Destroyer
  • Brynhild Class Escort
  • Cat's Paw Class Destroyer (damage)
  • Cobol Class Research Cruiser (damage)
  • Cygnus Class Destroyer (damage)
  • D19b Nefarious Class Destroyer
  • D3 Thorn Class Destroyer (heavy damage)
  • D7 Coldpain Class Cruiser (heavy damage)
  • D7a Painmaker Class Cruiser
  • Deep Space Scout
  • Deth Specula Class Frigate (heavy damage)
  • Dwarfstar Class Transport
  • Eros Class Research Vessel
  • Falcon Class Escort
  • Fearless Wing Cruiser (shields down)
  • Firecloud Class Cruiser (damage)
  • Gaurdian Class Destroyer (heavy damage)
  • Gemini Class Transport
  • H-ross Class Light Carrier (shields down)

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• Will be destroyed by
  • Annihilation Class Battleship
  • Automa Class Baseship
  • Biocide Class Carrier
  • Bloodfang Class Carrier (shields down)
  • Crystal Thunder Class Carrier (damaged)
  • Cybernaut Class Baseship (shields down)
  • Dark Wing Class Battleship (shields 50%)
  • Diamond Flame Class Battleship (shields 50%)
  • Diplomacy Class Cruiser (damaged)
  • Emerald Class Battlecruiser (heavily damaged)
  • Golem Class Baseship
  • Gorbie Class Battlecarrier
  • Ill Wind Class Battlecruiser (damaged)
  • Resolute Class Battleship (heavily damaged)

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• will most likely destroy the Patriot Class Light Carrier but will be severely damaged (mark7 torps)

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Notes

Ranges are taken from a Lizard Class Cruiser equipped with Disruptors, Mk7 torpedo tubes and Transwarp Drive in non-stop-flight.

Fighting Results are taken from ships equipped with Mk7 Torpedo tubes and Disruptors