Battlecruiser

WARSHIP TYPES
LAC Carrier (CLAC)
Superdreadnought (SD)
Dreadnought (DN)
Battlecruiser (BC)
Heavy Cruiser (CA)
Light Cruiser (CL)
Destroyer (DD)
Light Attack Craft (LAC)
Pinnace

A battlecruiser (HCS: BC) is a type of warship.

Pod-laying battlecruisers

The Royal Manticoran Navy developed the Agamemnon-class of battlecruiser designed to deploy missile pods, greatly increasing the size of their missile volleys. These ships are often referred to as a "pod-laying battlecruiser," or "battlecruiser (pods)" BC(P) in order to distinguish them from earlier conventional broadside missile armament battlecruisers.

Royal Manticoran Navy

The following classes are of the battlecruiser type and are currently in the service of the Royal Manticoran Navy:

Class	Year (PD)
Redoubtable-class	1786
Homer-class	1863
Reliant-class	1896
Agamemnon-class	1920
Nike-class	1920

Grayson Space Navy

Class	Year (PD)
Tomkin-class	1903
Courvoisier-class	1904
Hill-class	1905
Convert-class	1913
Courvoisier-II-class	1919

References

Battlecruisers
Royal Manticoran Navy
Agamemnon (BC-P)	Agamemnon (lead) - Achilles - Ajax - Andromeda - Black Rose - Dienekes - Diomedes - Hector - Helen - Heracles - Leonidas - Menelaus
Homer (BC)	Homer (lead) - Atropos
Nike (BC)	Artemis - Beowulf - Callisto - Excalibur - Horatius - Juno - Musashi - Penelope - Rigel - Truculent
Reliant (BC)	Reliant (lead) - Athena - Claymore - Enterprise - Invincible‡ - Ishtar - Phantom - Royalist - Shiva - Victorious
Grayson Space Navy
Courvoisier (BC)	Madrigal
Courvoisier II (BC-P)	Randolph Candless - Maria Waltham
Imperial Andermani Navy
Blücher (BC)	Buddenbrock
Warlord-D (BC)	Hrolf Kraki