The Agamennon Class Battleship was the joint largest ship in the Colonial Early Fleet, sharing that honour with the Olympia Class Heavy Carrier. Never designed to operate alone, the Battleship was the ultimate companion vessel to the Heavy Carrier. The Carrier would provide the escort, and the Battleship would provide the extreme hitting power - much as the Battlestar and Gunstar combination do today.

The Agamennon Class Battleship was initially built from the hull of the Heavy Carrier, but as the class became viable, it started to take its own form.

As most large ships are, part of its construction was due to a show of power. Having a vessel as large and as powerful as this in your fleet makes people think twice about being hostile to you. However, the Battleships did see some active service. With their (for the time) extremely heavy pulsar batteries, backed up by multiple missile tubes, and then surrounded by a heavily armoured shell with a lot of defensive laser turrets, the Battleship was a formidable foe. And if one appeared in a solar system, inhabitants tended to look up. Coupled with a Heavy Carrier or two, it was the ultimate expression of Colonial Power.

Like all ships of the time, it suffered from a few faults. It lacked its own fighter cover, and thus was extremely vulnerable to those attacks. Despite the defensive turrets, a determined fighter attack would be able to break through the defences and cause damage. The ship did carry a limited supply of attack shuttles, but in a fighter combat, these would be useless in the numbers employed, and thus were mainly used to support ground attack raids with the onboard contingent of troops. Secondly, it lacked power, again, a common fault with ships which mount lots of heavy weapons, and couldn't actually keep up with the Heavy Carriers that escorted it.
However, the firepower mounted was devastating against other enemy warships.

Only a few of these ships were actually constructed, and when the Great War with the Cylons broke out, these ships suffered losses. However, most of them survived the initial attacks, and during the next few yahrens were subject to several modifications which enabled them to last longer.

Variants:

To survive, the Battleship would have to undergo some modifications during its life span, and these would generally result in the loss of some of the ships systems, and the additions of fighter capability.

By far, the most common modification was the removal of the barracks, cargo bay and missile launchers, and the inclusion of a four flight launch bay in the centre of the ship. The missiles were sacrificed as it was felt that the pulsar lasers actually did more damage in practise. Without the missiles, the ship no longer needed the cargo bay for storage, and the barracks were also considered superfluous, ground attack not being a major role at this stage in the war. These ships - the Agamennon-S - were quite effective, and generally are considered the fore-runner of the Gunstar.

At least one ship was redesigned as an Agamennon-V or 'super carrier' though. As well as the removal of the missiles, cargo bay and barracks, the heavier pulsar lasers were also lost and with them, the APR systems. The batteries were replaced with additional APR systems, and the heavy front pulsar cannon were replaced with lighter defensive models. With the space left, no less than three fighter flight bays were installed, for a staggering total of 10 fighter flights. The ship was very cramped - not being designed to handle that amount of sub craft or additional deck crew - and the ship suffered at least two major accidents during its life span. While duty on the ship was not welcomed, the arrival of it into any combat was.

The Battleship was designed by Steve Stiever.

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Battleships have two seperate shuttle bays but may not conduct transfers via (J1.593). Each bay has a standard shuttle hatch (launching and landing from direction 4 for both bays).
The shuttle bays are large enough to accept yachts.
The Battleship has a hyperspeed multiplier of x1.5.

This is an Early Years ship.

Colonial Agamennon Class Battleship boarding diagram:

	A	B,C	D	E	F	G	H,J	K,M	L,N
BB:	3 F.Hull 3 Bridge 1 Flag 1 Emer	6 F.Hull 3 Ph.3	3 C.Hull 3 Cargo 3 Barracks 2 Missile	3 C.Hull 3 Cargo 3 Barracks 2 Missile	4 C Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 1 Ph.3	5 C.Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 2 Ph.3	5 A.Hull 2 Ph.3 12 Warp	2 Ph.1 4 Ph.3	6 APR 4 Shuttle
The Battleship has only 1 Ph.3 in area J
BBS:	3 F.Hull 3 Bridge 1 Flag 1 Emer	6 F.Hull 3 Ph.3	3 C.Hull 6 Fighters	3 C.Hull 6 Fighters	4 C Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 1 Ph.3	5 C.Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 2 Ph.3	5 A.Hull 2 Ph.3 12 Warp	2 Ph.1 4 Ph.3	6 APR 4 Shuttle
The Battleship has only 1 Ph.3 in area J
BBV:	3 F.Hull 3 Bridge 1 Flag 1 Emer	6 F.Hull 3 Ph.3	3 C.Hull 6 Fighters	3 C.Hull 6 Fighters	4 C Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 1 Ph.3	5 C.Hull 1 Aux 4 Battery 2 Ph.3	5 A.Hull 2 Ph.3 12 Warp	3 Fighters 4 Ph.3	6 Fighters 4 Shuttle
The Battleship has only 1 Ph.3 in area J

 

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	GIF file
Agamennon Class Battleship SSD	32k
Agamennon-S Class Battleship SSD	35k
Agamennon-V Class Battleship SSD	33k

 

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Master Ship Chart Extract:

Ship	Crew Units	Brdg Parties	BPV	Move Cost	Size Class	Turn Mode	Explos. Str	F&E Cmd	Ftr Flights	Year	Notes
Agamennon Class Battleship	30	8	78	2.00	2	D	25	4	0	6000
Agamennon-S Class Battleship	30	6	68	2.00	2	D	25	4	4	6000
Agamennon-V Class Battleship	30	6	57	2.00	2	D	25	4	10	6000

Annex #7B: Ships able to land on planets

This ship may not land on a planet.

Annex #7G: Carrier information & Annex #7N: Missile reloads

Ship	Type	Ftrs	Admin	Bays	Store	DC
Agamennon Class Battleship	YBB	0/0	4	0/0/2	200	8*
Agamennon-S Class Battleship	YBBS	4/0	8	1/0/2	0	8*
Agamennon-V Class Battleship	YBBV	10/0	8	3/0/2	0	10*

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