Athena

Athena PHC - Athena PHC-Athena.jpg General Information Type Cruiser Constructed by Armory Cost Time 50 seconds Metal 410 Radioactives 105 Logistics 10 Stats Spawn Count 1 Hit Points 2583 Armor 2 Sight Radius 1000 Radar Radius 1015 Weapon - Rapture Cannon DPS 8 Range 400 Weapon - Plasma Gutter DPS 120 Range 400 Requires energy Weapon - Rapture Cannon DPS 8 Range 400 The Athena is a cruiser class ship for the Post-Human Coalition. Cruiser destroyer. Strong versus other cruisers. Lore Assault cruiser with some light armoring in order to protect it from enemy barrages. Its Plasma Gutter is deadly against enemy cruisers while also packing secondary weapons for light firepower against enemy frigates. It is armed with Rapture Cannon, sweeps away frigates and other riff-raff with volleys of the highest-class ammunition available: Plasma Gutter, beam weapon that eviscerates larger targets with a deadly plasma stream: and the TK-421 Blast Cannon, a heavy slug thrower that fires depleted uranium shells. Tactics Athena evaporates most other cruisers within a few seconds, making it the backbone unit of most PHC armies, simply offering excellent brute force firepower to deal with cruisers, dreadnoughts and juggernauts. Athena also gains a temporary speed boost once its main weapon locks onto a target, making it extremely deadly vs other cruisers, leaving them little chance to survive. Despite having a weapon to deal with frigates, Athena is generally helpless against a squad of frigates and will require support from frigates or anti-frigate cruisers, such as the Zeus. Unlike Mauler, Athena can fire its main weapon on frigates. While this has no real downside as Athena doesn't require energy to do so (like Mauler does), this will cause the weapon to incur attack cool down and this might mean death when facing enemy Athenas and/or Maulers soon after the enemy frigate is destroyed. Despite offering very reliable brute force damage, Athena will eventually have problem with heavy cruisers, high level dreadnoughts, juggernauts or dreadnoughts and/or juggernauts with proper support armies should they ever gain critical mass or level advantage. Thus, it's important to transition out of mass Athena when it's no longer effective. Image Gallery