Lightly armed and armored but swift and equipped for extended tours of duty, corvettes are ideal for commerce protection and raiding. Corvettes - Typically the smallest WarShip category, with the typical mass range given as 150,000 to 250,000 tons the heaviest known corvette design masses 412,000 tons but seems to be an outlier, as no other known corvette design masses more than 240,000 tons.The only class explicitly referred to as a 'raider' is the 175,000 ton Fredasa class.)

(Notably, though, the 'raider' classification is barely used. Raiders - Massing between 100,000 and 150,000 tons, this WarShip category can arguably be regarded as the lower end of the corvette class.It has no impact on gameplay.Īccording to Strategic Operations, page 10, WarShip classes are roughly defined as follows: Because of the somewhat diffuse criteria associated with each class and role, the classification is arbitrary and ultimately rather subjective. Most of these terms have survived since the Age of Sail, and were updated to reflect the realities of space combat. In BattleTech, spacegoing WarShips are often classified with the following terms, based on their role.

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