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27 Ticonderoga Class (CG 47 – CG 73) Aegis guided-missile cruisers were built between 19 by Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi and Bath Iron Works (a General Dynamics Company) in Bath, Maine, US. In short, the Strike cruiser is a glass cannon that excels at destroying heavy frigates and smaller craft.The Ticonderoga class are a class of guided-missile cruisers in service with the US Navy.
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Small wolf packs of 3–4 Strikes can take on most capital ships and Golan 1's. They are excellent corvette killers and can hold their own against most light and heavy cruisers. The Strike class is overall an excellent early game ship to accompany the stronger, more well-rounded Victory Star Destroyers.
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The Strike Cruiser also has much higher range than other frigates, giving it the ability to stay behind the front line and provide support fire. While quite well shielded for a ship of its size, it lacks the hull strength of other cruisers. Being a more modern design, the Strike cruiser is also a much faster ship than the Dreadnaught, making it able to flank or escape from battle if needed. Whereas the Dreadnaught is designed to hit hard after the shields fail, the Strike cruiser sacrifices some of the direct fire abilities for a more well-rounded weapon design, allowing it to drain shields faster than its cousin. The advantage of the Strike cruiser is the ion weaponry. The Strike-class cruiser is one of the offensive heavy cruisers available to the Imperial Remnant and Greater Maldrood. The reinforced Strike-class played a major role in the war for the next decade. As a result, these reliable and versatile (and this tactically valuable) cruisers were deemed necessary to be reinforced at the weak spots on the ship. However, after the fall of the Empire and the resulting Imperial Civil War, capital ships became more and more scarce for the Imperial Remnant. By the time Strike cruisers were introduced into service (during the height of the Empire) the design flaw was considered minor, as ships of this type were considered "disposable." It was also possible for the ship to simply break apart if enough critical hits were sustained.
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Due to its modular design, one well placed shot could shut down entire systems if the power connectors between sections were damaged. The main weakness of the Strike-class was side effect of its advantage. Two Strike cruisers were considered the equivalent of one Victory-class Star Destroyer. The Strike-class was surprisingly capable of challenging much larger cruisers than itself due to its heavy firepower, strong shields, and high sublight speed. Designed by the Loronar Corporation, the Strike cruiser was a general-purpose vessel capable of modular modifications, yet cheap enough to be mass produced. It carries an armament of 40/4 Turbolasers and 10/2 Ion Cannons.Ī departure from the Navy's trend towards increasingly larger warships, the Strike cruiser was an admission to a diminished ability to defend space superiority against Rebel forces as the Galactic Civil War went on. The Strike-class Medium Cruiser, or simply the Strike cruiser, is a heavy frigate available to the Imperial Remnant and Greater Maldrood in Eras 1–5.