Imperium Battleships?

[BasicallyClueless]

Which one is best, in regards to being the best "Standard battleship", with the most guns that do the most damage, without torpedos or weak armor or launch bays and that stuff. I looked online, and I see that the Oberon tries to include everything, which makes it extremely weak, and the Emperor is just a much more expensive Exorcist, which makes it unviable and weak. So I'm torn between the Retribution and the Armageddon. I'm leaning towards Retribution, as most people seem to pick that, but I figured I'd ask the community's opinion on it. What do you guys think?

[Error3000]

well if you are looking for stuff that does "the most damage, without torpedoes" then I imagine that Retribution is out of the question, its a giant ram with torps, unless some maniacs are using it like a gunship for whatever reason

[BasicallyClueless]

I mean I bought it a little while ago to check it out, the torpedos aren't bad so I rescind that, I just don't wanna spend a ton of money on a battleship just to see that I have to use it like- 20,000 units back like the Armageddon, or it's only good for aircraft like the emperor, or just be a pile of ♥♥♥♥ (Apparently) like the oberon, so idk. The Avenger is awesome to me because it has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of guns and that's it. I was hoping there was a battleship that suited that role best, lol

[Error3000]

Unfortunately Im not an expert at imperial battleships but their guns in general are decent, while the aircraft only may sound bad the bombers from a battleship are extremely powerfull and can probably 1 shot escorts and cripple light cruisers

Ultimately in campaign you can use anything or test anything (you can also do so in skirmish mode) since the AI isnt that complicated you can theoretically win with any ships

[Mistfox]

Originally posted by Carrion:

Which one is best, in regards to being the best "Standard battleship", with the most guns that do the most damage, without torpedos or weak armor or launch bays and that stuff.

Apocalypse. Besides the 6 lance batteries and the 2 Macro cannon turret that can fire to the side, it has a special ability (Overloaded Lances) that when you use Lock On, it turns the gun range insanely long so you can pound the enemy from far, far away. The Retribution does not have any bonuses for its weapons. The spur and torpedoes makes it clear that the Retribution is more a close in brawler/ramming ship than a gun platform though it does make a decent one.

Just to point out though, the insane range and accuracy won't mean much if you don't have eyes to spot the enemy at that range so while a full gunline of Apocalypses is nice, you'll need some eyes like fighters, angur probes or as a last resort, an Oberon's sensors (you lose almost 9,000 range using ship only sensors) to use that gun range.

The Oberon is a good ship if you use it in the role it was designed for. It's a "scout battleship" with the best sensors of ALL the ships not just battleships or cruisers, matched only by the Widowmaker destroyer and carry 2 fighter wings you're supposed to use to scout with. You use them to "see" what you're shooting at.

Edit: I forgot the Emperor also has the same sensors, but with 4 launch bays, you might not want to go that heavy into strike craft since you want a gun focus.