a battle barge in game

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**Galorian**

Psienesis wrote:
Depends, I think, on whether it would be something that is treated as a unit or fortification, or a contestable piece of armed terrain (like an ADL), or if it is just "terrain".

As being "offboard artillery", something of this scale would be, like, Large Blast D-Weapon, Ignores Cover, with Armourbane, Fleshbane and... Everything-Bane. The only way to survive it is to not get hit by it, or have some sort of ++ Save that isnt armour based.

ETA: As balance, I would state that it can fire only every 3 turns (those things take a long time to charge up/reload). Pick a point on the battlefield, and then roll for Scatter (orbital strikes are anything but pin-point accurate) 2d6". Wherever the Scatter dice indicates the blast lands, center the Large Blast marker over that point, and kill any model or unit underneath it.

The broadside of an Imperial capital ship has been known to reduce continents into molten slag...

**Kiasyd555**

"Below them, the vast hull of the flagship gleams in the sunlight as it extends away. Macragge’s Honour. Twenty-six kilometres of polished ceramite and steel armour." - Know No Fear, Pg. 42 “Imperial starships hung in the blackness between it and him: some vast, grey and vaulted like cathedrals twenty kilometres long, some bloated like oceanic titans; others long, lean and angular like his own frigate.” - Ghostmaker, Pg. 78 "The battleship Spirit of Konor, seventeen kilometres long..." - Know No Fear, Pg. 144 "The grand cruiser Antrodamicus, twelve kilometres from bow to stern..." - Know No Fear, Pg. 131