The Imperial Avenger-class Grand Cruiser is a very old class of warship, a gun boat designed as a line-breaker during a time when the Imperial Navy's tactics were much different from what they are today. This class was used in a fairly simple way: squadrons of Avenger-class Grand Cruisers would deploy behind a screen of Escorts or Light Cruisers while closing with the enemy fleet, then accelerate to maximum speed and race into the heart of the enemy fleet. Once there, it would sit in place and use its massive number of heavy broadside weapons batteries to trade barrages at point-blank range. The Avenger would also take severe damage from its foes in the process, but its big batteries could out-shoot most enemies at close quarters. When using Avengers, an Imperial battlefleet's tactical pla
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| - The Imperial Avenger-class Grand Cruiser is a very old class of warship, a gun boat designed as a line-breaker during a time when the Imperial Navy's tactics were much different from what they are today. This class was used in a fairly simple way: squadrons of Avenger-class Grand Cruisers would deploy behind a screen of Escorts or Light Cruisers while closing with the enemy fleet, then accelerate to maximum speed and race into the heart of the enemy fleet. Once there, it would sit in place and use its massive number of heavy broadside weapons batteries to trade barrages at point-blank range. The Avenger would also take severe damage from its foes in the process, but its big batteries could out-shoot most enemies at close quarters. When using Avengers, an Imperial battlefleet's tactical pla
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| - The Imperial Avenger-class Grand Cruiser is a very old class of warship, a gun boat designed as a line-breaker during a time when the Imperial Navy's tactics were much different from what they are today. This class was used in a fairly simple way: squadrons of Avenger-class Grand Cruisers would deploy behind a screen of Escorts or Light Cruisers while closing with the enemy fleet, then accelerate to maximum speed and race into the heart of the enemy fleet. Once there, it would sit in place and use its massive number of heavy broadside weapons batteries to trade barrages at point-blank range. The Avenger would also take severe damage from its foes in the process, but its big batteries could out-shoot most enemies at close quarters. When using Avengers, an Imperial battlefleet's tactical plan would usually call for two or three squadrons of the vessels to launch these brutal attacks simultaneously, causing so much damage and disruption through this close-quarters slug-match that the enemy formation would be reduced to disarray. The enemy vessels that survived the guns of the Avengers would then prove to be easy prey for the following waves of Imperial warships to mop up. This tactic was often effective, but the rate of attrition amongst Avenger squadrons was equally brutal, and the ship fell out of favour. Unfortunately for the Avenger-class, tactical doctrine changed over the years, making the Avenger redundant in many Imperial Navy battlefleets. For the most part, the Avenger-class has been relegated from front-line duty, with many Avengers having had their massive weapons batteries ripped out for use elsewhere. Those Avenger-class squadrons that remain are mostly mothballed in fleet reserves, patiently awaiting the day when they will once again be called upon to blast their way into the heart of an enemy fleet to defend the Imperium of Man.
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