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 with Mark 7 torpedo tubes:

The Lizard Class Cruiser is capable of taking out most of the enemy key ships, if both are equipped with Mark 7 torpedos. In many cases it has to return to a starbase to be repaired, or needs to take a great portion of supplies to perform a self-repair. Very surprising is the performance versus the Virgo Class Battlestars and the Super Star Destroyer.

Will destroy

• • Aries Class Transport
  • Arkham Class Frigate (heavy damage)
  • 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)
  • Iron Lady Class Frigate (captures) (damage)
  • Iron Slave Class Baseship
  • Lady Royale Class Cruiser
  • Large Deep Space Freighter
  • Little Joe Class Escort
  • Little Pest Class Escort
  • Loki Class Destroyer (damaged)
  • Medium Deep Space Freighter
  • Merlin Class Alchemy Ship (captures) (heavy damage) (50 torpedoes)
  • Meteor Class Blockade Runner
  • Mig Class Scout
  • Moscow Class Star Escort (heavy damage)
  • Nebula Class Cruiser (very heavy damage)
  • Neutronic Fuel Carrier
  • Neutronic Refinery Ship (captures) (heavy damage) (60 torpedoes)
  • Nocturne Class Destroyer (damage)
  • Onyx Class Frigate (damage)
  • Opal Class Torpedo Boat
  • Outrider Class Scout
  • Patriot Class Light Carrier (very heavy damage)
  • Pawn Class Baseship (damage)
  • Pl21 Probe
  • Q Tanker (captures)
  • Quietus Class Cruiser
  • Red Wind Class Carrier
  • Ru25 Class Gunboat (captures)
  • Ruby Class Light Cruiser (shields down)
  • Saber Class Frigate
  • Sage Class Frigate (shields down)
  • Sagittarius Class Transport
  • Sky Garnet Class Destroyer
  • Skyfire Class Cruiser (damage)
  • Small Deep Space Freighter
  • Small Transport
  • Super Star Frigate (captures) (heavy damage)
  • Super Transport Freighter
  • Swift Heart Class Scout
  • Taurus Class Scout
  • Topez Class Gunboat (captures)
  • Tranquility Class Cruiser (damage)
  • Valiant Wind Class Carrier (damage)
  • Vendetta Class Frigate (heavy damage)
  • Watcher Class Scout
  • White Falcon Class Cruiser

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)
  • Instrumentality Class Baseship (shields down)
  • Kittyhawk Class Carrier (shields down)
  • Missouri Class Battleship (shields 50%)
  • Nova Class Super Dreadnought (shields 50%)
  • Resolute Class Battleship (heavily damaged)
  • Rush Class Heavy Carrier
  • Scorpius Class Light Carrier (damaged)
  • Super Star Cruiser (damaged)
  • Super Star Carrier (damaged)
  • Super Star Destroyer (damaged)
  • Thor Class Frigate (heavily damaged)
  • Victorious Class Battleship (shields 50%)
  • Virgo Class Battlestar (shields down)

• 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