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TEC Kol Battleship - Starcore TT#7

This is a heavy cruiser, not a battleship, despite what the namesake of the SOASE (sins of a solar empire) ship implies.
It is also a formation flyer, not a solo duelist, and works best when paired up with other ships that complement its weaknesses. It was built to win tournaments, not dogfights. The Kol leads the charge and plays the role of the tackler.

++To fly this ship effectively, you point your front at the enemy, and do not stop doing that!++

The skin of the ship is mostly 1 to 2 layers of light armor, with heavy armor colored red underneath. Colored armor layers allows for neat damage effects in fights, and helps when tearing out the guts. When you are being blasted apart you can look cool while exploding.

The ship is designed to be shot at from the front by anything. Do everything you can to keep them only hitting your front. The majority of your thrust is located in the back of the ship, and with good positioning you can keep them alive. In order to squeeze out more points, the only directions with acceptable thrust is when going forwards and upwards. Use Q and E to roll and SPACEBAR to use the AWG heavy ion thruster to really get you moving. This is cheaper than putting a heavy ion thruster or 6 large ion thrusters in each direction, and saves points that I put into more reactors and weapons for the Kol.

The best orientation is to keep them slightly off your left bow, so the 3 coil guns and gladius lasers can all concentrate on a single target.

The point defense loadout on this ship is bad, but recent testing shows that almost all the point defense is bad. Concentrate on killing the enemy missile boats first.