Neu Swabian League

The Arnhem Strike Boat boat is, apart from fighters, the smallest vessel which the Neu Swabian League uses in a military role. It is designed as a multi-purpose scout/assualt craft, its forward section being taken up by a mass 2 weapons bay, which can carry sensor systems, needle beams, C batteries or a single B battery, depending on configuration. They were originally designed as needle ships, but after disastrous results in their first engagement, must were outfitted with missiles. There are currently twenty in service.

The Fulda class corvette is a light escort warship, designed for short range planetary policing. Though its beam weapon system is designed for sustained combat, it is incapable of taking sustained fire. It is rarely used in open combat.

One of the lightest Neu Swabian warships, they are designed to take on over escort class vessels, making use of the range of their twin A-battery weapon system. Lacking armour and weapons capable of damage serious damage to larger vessels, their strategy is to shelter behind larger ships and take pot shots at those more in their own league. The ships currently in active service in this class are the Eilenburg, the Lindow, the Arnstadt and the Lenzen.

The Delitzsch is designed for fleet action against enemy escort vessels. Its armour provides limited protection, but gives it the edge against unprotected opponents. Though not as fast as the Eilenburg class, its heavier hull is designed to provide protection long enough to allow strikes against cruisers or capital ships, when it can make good use of its submunition packs. Ships in this class currently in active service are the Delitzsch, the Lauchhammer, the Rotenburg and the Reichenbach.

Designed to close rapidly with the enemy, and delivery a hefty punch to larger vessels, the Naumberg class is one of the latest additions to the fleet. Armed with a single pulse torpedo, it has excellent short range capability against even heavily protected ships, and its three submunition packs likewise do considerable damage to any craft.

A heavy destroyer, armed with pulse torpedoes and A batteries, though some variations on the Koblenz class carry three pulse torpedoes, skipping on standard batteries alltogether. Though such a variation packs a hefty punch, the useful range is limited, and the craft is left with few side firing weapon systems.

The Lubeck Missile Cruiser is a feared part of the Neu Swabian League fleet. They rarely act alone, being used in conjunction with larger vessels. A group of missile cruisers can launch a salvo of missiles capable of crippling or destroying several large capital ships. Once missiles have been launched, their remaining C battery is of little use, so they generally try to escape the battle.

The Oldenburg Escort Cruiser is, as its name suggests, designed to escort other ships. In the many battles against the ESU, the Oldenburg class is generally used to defend against missile attacks, relying on interceptor-fighters to destroy enemy fighters. When escorting outside of a front-line battle, they are generally used in an anti-fighter role protecting innocent civilian convoys from cowardly ESU attacks.

The Berlin dreadnaught is designed for assualt and fighter support. It lacks the firepower of the smaller maulers, but its size, armour, and two fighter squadrons ensure that it is quite capable of taking care of itself against enemy ships of similar mass.

The Richtofen class of Battlecruiser is the smallest of the ships which can be classed as capital ships. Despite having only moderate armour, it is slower than other capital ships, being designed to be cheap and easy to produce in the Rim territories. It's role is the destruction of escort vessels - though slow, its stragetic placement in the line of battle should ensure enemy escort ships come to it.

The Bonn was designed around a modified hull of the Hannover, with its pulse weapon systems being removed and replaced with a single wave gun. Even so, extensions to the hull were required to cope with the larger power requirements.

The Dortmund is a larger version of the Berlin, having reduced primary weapon systems, and instead being equipped with superior sensor and ECM systems, as well as increased point defence systems. The Dortmund is designed for a command and control role, rather than as an assualt dreadnaught.

The Gorlitz class of Heavy Mauler builds on a design other navies might classify as a super-dreadnaught. The Gorlitz is heavily armed and armoured, being designed for simple, brute force tactics in support of a more general purpose fleet. It has three pulse torpedoes, six batteries of A class beam weapons, and four missiles. It's sister ship, the Gdansk is similarly armed.

The Hannover (as well as the Bismark, her sister ship) is designed to go toe-to-toe with capital ships, cutting through shields and heavy armour with its twin pulse-cannon array. Heavy turreted beam weapons provide all round fire.

The Dusseldorf is a massive heavy dreadnaught, capable of bringing, fighters, heavy weapons support and command and control into the centre of the battlefield wherever, and whenever, required. The Dusseldorfs most prominant armament is her twin heavy railgun system which is underslung 'beneath' her. Though it is theoretically capable of doing massive damage out to 18 thousand kilometres, it has had some problems with the targetting systems, rendering the system practically useless during field trials. These problems now seem to have been fixed.

The Stuttgart is a massive carrier, heavily armed and armoured, designed to take its four fighter groups into the thickest of fighting. Originally designed with only medium armour, and much weaker drives, the Stuttgart has recently been upgraded to heavy armour, plus much more powerful drive systems.