Vanguard

Vanguard
Stats (Min/Max)
Shield Cap	140/190
Shield Regen	3/4
Energy Cap	80/90
Energy Regen	25/35
Turning Rate	80/120
Acceleration	40/60
Terminal Velocity	75/90
Stats (Constant)
Tier	4
Mass	200
Designer	Neuronality
Status	Active

Vanguard is a Sniper-Class T4 Ship. It has large damage, being the largest of all the T4 ships. Although it has impressive attack, it has poor shields and is quite slow. But nonetheless, a wonderful ship. What this ship lacks is shield stats, energy regeneration, acceleration, and ship speed. But the energy capacity, laser damage/speed, and ship agility is amazing. It has an average mass of 200. It closely resembles a ETA-2 Starfighter.

When an attack group of these ships in team mode attacks, the other teams get ripped completely apart. The vanguard RIPS through them.

As a ship with recoil, upgrading all but damage and agility is useful. It is a decent miner due to the high damage, but is very slow compared to other T4 ships. Since it has relatively low shields, it would benefit more from defense pods than attack pods. Plus it HAS REALLY HIGH DAMAGE and is usefull against lower tier ships.

The ship however, is extremely slow. It can move quickly by using the extreme recoil to it's advantage. The recoil exhibited by the ship is more extreme then the U-Sniper, and the quick timed shots make the recoil retreat very quick. It is probably the best at using RCS to retreat in the entire game, but it is no good at quick duels in Asteroid fields where agility is required.

This is a very popular ship as it is easy to get to through the power-mining Side-Fighter, is one of the best tier 4 ships and upgrades to U-Sniper, one of the best tier 5 ships.