Legion Battleship

“	The Legion Battleship is a variant of the Demon Corps Hellfire Battleship designed to emulate alien hive siege combat principles.	”
	— In-Game Description

General[ | ]

Legion Battleship

Basic Information
Faction	Demon Corps
Tier	5.5
Class	Battleship
Slot Configuration
Weapon	3
Hangar	1
Armor	3
Shield	2
Specifications
Health	2,025
Unladen Mass	600 t
Maximum Mass	6,660 t
Firing Arc 1	90.00° (90.00° offset)
Firing Arc 2	90.00° (-90.00° offset)
Cargo	175,800 t
Ship Speed	150 m/s
Turning Speed	6.0 deg/s
Strafe Speed	50 m/s
Rear Speed	50 m/s
Acceleration	50 m/s²
Sector Speed	480 AU/h
Hull XP	4,901 XP
Modifiers
Weapon Mass	-15%
Resurgence	30%
Research
Blueprint
Pieces	8
Requires	Ship Factory X, Ship Lab X
Build
Time	7h 15m
He-3	46,831,017
AM	15,610,339
Craft
Repair
Time	Fixed 30m 00s

The Legion Battleship is a cross between a battleship and a carrier, trading mobility for long-range bombardment via squadrons. It is also cruiser-like, with dual shields and triple armor.

Though technically a battleship, this ship is considered as a Class X hull, with properties that violate that of its original class.

Strategy and Setup[ | ]

Advantages[ | ]

Legion Battleships are strong, defensive ships that specialise in destroying Hive Fleets, and generally poor at pursuing enemy ships, requiring their opponents to come to them.

Legion Battleships are best used against enemy bases, literally spamming them with up to 2 squadrons per ship, plus 6 from a Dominion Carrier. The sheer amount of squadrons is enough to slowly whittle down a Combat Module's health and destroy it, provided that it do not have enough range to fire back.

They are also effective against fleets that lack squadron defense, for obvious reasons.

Disadvantages[ | ]

Legion Battleships are tanky but lack damage, with only half the weapon slots of a Hellfire Battleship. These weapons should be considered supplementary and mainly used to defend against enemy squadrons.

The fatal flaw of Legion Battleships is their speed. While they technically cannot be kited by any ship due to extensive squadron coverage, battleships with adequate squadron defense can take advantage of the fact that the Legion Battleship does not receive a range bonus. Marked-up frigates and cutters have no problem catching and destroying them with their anti-class bonuses.

As there are no fleets that drop its fragments anymore, it can no longer be upgraded.

Upgrading[ | ]

Level	II	III	IV	V
SLOT CONFIGURATION
Hangar Slots	1	1	2	2
Resistance Slots	1	1	1	1
SPECIFICATIONS
Max. Mass	6,993 t	7,326 t	7,659 t	7,992 t
Cargo	219,750 t	263,700 t	307,650 t	351,600 t
MODIFIERS
Cruiser Damage	+10%	+23%	+36%	+50%
DPS	+6%	+12%	+18%	+25%
Weapon Mass	-20%	-25%	-30%	-35%
Shield Bypass	+5%	+10%	+15%	+20%
Resurgence	40%	50%	60%	70%
RESEARCH
Prerequisites	Previous level of Legion Battleship, Same level of Fury Battleship
Workshop Required	N/A	N/A	N/A	VIII
Time	2m 00s	2m 45s	3m 30s	4m 15s
Mineral Ore	20,013,570	40,027,140	60,040,710	80,054,280
CRAFT
Time	2h 09m	3h 45m	5h 54m	7h 15m
Mineral Ore	6,671,085	13,342,170	20,013,255	26,684,340
Patterns	1	1	1	1
Cores	5	5	5	5
Parts	10	30	90	270
Armaments	2,048	2,560	3,200	4,000

Note: Legion Battleship upgrades use Hellfire Battleship Parts.

Trivia[ | ]

The Legion Battleship is unique as a battleship: it has squadron slots but no special slots, is extremely slow and does not get a range bonus.
It is the first Class X hull in the game. Due to its failure, it was also the last.
It is also the first non-carrier player hull that has hangar slots, followed by Caustic and Subverter much later.
It is the slowest player hull in the game, exceeded even by sluggish Harvester.
The Legion Battleship's classic skin color is silver - this is different in comparison with all other Demon Corps Hulls which feature blood red as their classic hull paint.
Players also jokingly call the Legion Battleship "void" and "Lemon" as well, due to it being seen as completely useless.
The Legion Battleship patterns have NOT appeared since the Xeno Division season, until the Decimation of November 2018, during which pattern boxes were made available for a while. Now they're not available anymore, and most likely won't be again.
- Legion Battleship prizes were going to be obtainable during the Ghosts of Solstice Past event at the end of 2020, but an unexpected issue led to them being replaced by pre-fitted Wendigo and Ajax ships with the Cipher skin.
- However, during Haunted 2021 they were available without any bugs.
A bonus to DPS was added to battleship mark upgrades around the middle of 2018.
All player ships had their Resurgence values modified as a result of the late February 2020 update.
Originally, during its development, the Legion was supposed to have 9 weapons slots, 5 Hangar slots and was faster than a cruiser, so it was most likely an early incarnation of a Dreadnought flagship. Seeing what ultimately became of the released version, it might've been a better choice.
The repair time of all Tier 5-6 ships was standardized in the early February 2021 update.