greetings gentlemen !

We are soon to do a reboot of our Rogue Trader campaign which was on hiatus.My players have always wanted to get a fast -cruiser or battlecruiser - the Chalice battlecruiser is fine, but they 'd love to get their filthy paws on a mothballed/ wrestled from a Space Hulk & rebuilt Slaughter, or at least, manage to salvage a Scartex Engine Coil.

Probleme is, the Slaughter in Battlefleet Koronus does not offer a Ship Points value, nor give its Space Value.

With the given components, and estimating that their macro-batterys use the same output & space as Mars pattern, I've calculated that :

- the Scartex Engine give +2 to the Base Speed of a Cruiser. (chaos cruisers have usually a base speed of 7, the Slaughter is 9) but add nothing to its manoeuvrability ( the Slaughter is still at +5 like other Chaos cruisers).
- the Slaughter describded use 64 Power & 56 space, without any drive at all.

As the hull points of this ship is reduced compared to other cruisers, and that all sample ships usually have no free room we can perhaps consider that the Space available on a Slaughter is 70, thus the Scartex Engine needs 14 space. If the Slaughter has the usual 75 space of a cruiser, then the Scartex Engine Coil uses a huge 19 Space.

So, anyone does have an idea of how much Ship points a Slaughter Hull shall cost & how many Space she has ? the Same question for a Scartex Engine Coil ?

When applying BFG the Slaughter is the cheapest Imperial Navy or Chaos cruiser. It is 15pts cheaper then the Lunar class cruiser. However the Slaughter has more and better weaponry then the lunar when it comes to gunnery. It is a lot faster (30cm vs 20cm!). Lunar has prow & torpedoes.

But the Slaughter is kinda cheap as it does not fit in the Chaos fleet with its 'skills'.

But in a lone setting like Rogue Trader can be I would rate the Slaughter higher regarding SP's.

However the Scartix Coil... maintenance should be a higher skill check or so. To level SP's.

So let's try to build it correctly.

Slaugther-class Cruiser.

Dimensions : same as battlefleet Koronus, p107- 108.

Speed : 7 Manoeuvrability : +5 Detection : +10 Hull Integrity :68. Armour : 20 turret Rating : 2
Space : 70. SP : 62.

Weapon Capacity : Prow 1, Port 2, Starboard 2.
Ill-traited Revengeful Core : As the plans for this class of ships has been lost since the destruction of Sethelan Forgeworld, proper care of the powerfull plasma drive has not been done for millenia. Reduce by 5 the power generated by the Plasma drive ; also, add +2 to Crew Population & Crew Morale Damage in case of a Fire.
Lost Remnant of Sethelan : For 2 more Ship points, the Slaughter can still have her original Scartix Engine Coil. It can never be upgraded to good or best quality.

Scartix Engine Coil : Power generated 75 , Space 14. +2 Ship Points. Appropriate for Cruisers only.
Overcharged Plasma Turbines : the Ship gains +2 to its Speed, All tests to Flank Speed are now Routine (+20) Tech-Use tests.
Forgotten Knowledge : the Engine is extremely complex and ancient, only the very best mechanicus shipwrights manage to understand it enough to conduct repairs. Any Tech-Use Tests to repair any damage to the Scartix Engine Coil suffer a -20 penalty.

So any opinions ? too cheap or expensive ?

Mordechai Von Razgriz said:

Doesn't look unreasonable.