Loyalist

The Loyalist is a Battleship equipped with a heavy armament of medium Turrets.

Description
The Loyalist is a Battleship equipped entirely with Medium Turrets, giving it an high rate of fire. This ship can be used much like the Ampharos or Tempest, as its Turrets have an high rate of fire with decent accuracy. The ship has a resemblance to the Witch, but with plates instead of a full body and large engines in the back that somewhat resemble those of the Tempest. It is almost entirely black with the team colors most visible on the engines and between the plated areas.

Interior
The interior is almost non-existent with nothing but a dark room with a chair and a sign sarcastically pointing it out.

Advantages

 * High health for a Battleship.
 * Medium Turrets provide it with great damage at long ranges.
 * Turrets are mounted all on the top, allowing them to quickly focus on one ship.
 * Has two Medium Cannons to back up its Turrets when fighting larger ships.
 * Fast for its size.

Disadvantages

 * Highly vulnerable bottom.
 * One of the slowest and least maneuverable Battleships in the game, comparable to the Archeon.
 * Due to the lack of Small Turrets it may suffer against smaller ships, which is ironic since it's current description states that it brings "Un-paramount AA Defense."

Strategy

 * Provide excellent anti-ship support to a siege fleet.
 * Stay behind other ships when larger ships attack. The Medium Turrets are best used for support and are not always effective against large targets with high health, even at this quantity.
 * If a ship ever gets into your blind spot, warp and turn to fire at the attacking ship, if it gets back into your blind spot, try to warp back to your base.

Version History

 * Received a shield and hull buff and it's Turrets were changed from 8 Gatling Turrets to 8 Medium Turrets in version .63h. Likely due to the fact that when there was heavy server lag, the Gatling fire rate would become dramatically slower, which hindered the Loyalist from dealing its full DPS.

Trivia

 * The ship was originally going to be called the Cyclone but was changed for unknown reasons.
 * The lights on the front of the ship blink randomly, almost as if they are eyes.
 * The ship used to "hard-counter" small ships, but after the rebalance it lost most ability to fight small ships, a grim irony taking its current description into account.