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Bardiche Cruiser

"This abyssal voyager can seem way smaller from the inside than the other way around. The cruiser sports very significant buoyancy, spacious cargo and many weapons on either side. Maintaining all this machinery can still be tricky for a limited crew."

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Lore:

A warship-type submarine, Bardiche wasn't constructed for fighting humans. The design shows, as the large blast doors and hatches make it possible to barricade in the few secured rooms; most other compartments are open enough to become indoors shooting grounds in a desperate point in time. This specific feature had in turn increased severity of discipline enforcement aboard these vessels. In time, crewing a Bardiche began to associate with negative aspects of serving under the Coalition, especially among the less experienced sailors, who also tend to gravitate towards more compact ships. Not that strange that these vessels became a sort of trademark of the Coalition, similarly to how it was with Humpbacks. The more hard-headed and experienced ones can however appreciate the robust and relentless Bardiche, despite it being not the most quick or contemporarily equipped of submarines.

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Quick gameplay overview:

- Pros: numerous turrets can shred all enemies above the sub's center of mass, unless they target the very celling. The ones attacking from below can be taken care of with shuttle lasers, and the entire submarine's surface can be shocked with two pairs of discharge coils. The 8-battery array in command room is perhaps even more important energy source/capacitor than the nuclear reactor itself, all that's needed for them is consistent maintenance and correct for a situation charge rate setting. The glass canopy outside each of the gunneries, where all the turrets are placed, is a sort of transparent shield. When damaged it is blocked off by a blast door until directly approached and fixed. Significant space delegated to the ballasts makes descent really quick, as well as making the sub resistant to sinking. Players in danger can quickly retreat into one of three more protected rooms, directly adjacent to the docked Cleaver shuttle. A single player can technically make ~70% of use out of one gunnery compartment at a time by interchanging the periscopes (the outermost one controls both discharge coils on this side, depending on the switch's state). The alarm system makes it easy to react to a flood or a fire, no matter which part of the sub you are in.

- Cons: Bardiche is slow to accelerate horizontally, and unlike the rest of the sub, cargo and the above of it are pretty hard to defend. The entire ventral area is also vulnerable when Cleaver is undocked, putting the Command room itself in direct danger. The high-demanding electrical devices can put junction boxes under big stress in case of a power spike even despite of the battery array, so engineer and captain cooperation is key to optimal maneuvering. The rightmost junction boxes cut off the rest of the power grid from reactor if they are damaged. Personnel transport and pirate missions can be a problem due to the fact that gunnery, engine and reactor rooms are so open to enemy gunfire. Reactor isn't very effective at burning fuel and the turrets are somewhat slow-turning (compensating for their convenient placement).

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Characteristics:

- Designation: Attack

- Cost: 14000

- Size: 65x16 m

- Recommended crew size: 4-9

- Cargo: 40 crates

- Armaments: one Railgun and two coilguns on both sides; four electric discharge coils; shuttle Cleaver with two Pulse Lasers and two decoy depth charges.

- Max. horizontal speed: 19 km/h

- Max. descent speed: 23 km/h

- Crafting: Medical Fabricator, Fabricator, Deconstructor

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Shuttle "Cleaver":

- Size: 16x7 m

- Recommended crew size: 1-2

- Armaments: two Pulse Lasers and two decoy depth charges.

- Max. horizontal speed: 29 km/h

- Max. descent speed: 21 km/h


My other submarines:

Horizon Light Carrier https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2734070358

Stingray https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2788389998