Oblivion Warship

"'Fear the judgement of the Oblivion Warship' - Oblivion Warship"Oblivion Warship (Jap. 日食) - is a flying aircraft carrier/heavy bomber deployed by Empire of the Rising Sun military during Entropy events.

Background
At the dawn of the Empire of the Rising Sun, before Jet Tengu was invented, swarms of Zero Sunburst Drones were the basis of Imperial air forces. They were launched from airfields that unfurled from nanocores, which were specially designed to maintain Zeros.

The numbers in which Zero drones were produced quickly led to overproduction, and following invention of the famous Jet Tengu caused thousands of drones were unused and left on the airfields. Zero airfield were no longer produced.

As a results of Tenzai Robotics research aimed on finding new use of Zero drones, Final Squardons were taken to service. Exist Zero drones were converted into kamikaze planes by replacing bomb armament with explosive charges.

Successful use of new Zero Drones led to further research and, thereafter, collaboration between Tenzai Robotics and Shirada Shipworks stimulated by Ten-Shi Zaibatsu head command.

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Tactics
Oblivion Warship plays three roles on the battlefield: long-ranged anti-surface aircraft, heavy bomber and transport. However, it is not as good at each role as specific units: kamikaze attacks deal less damage than Aircraft Carrier's drones (unless upgraded with Honorable Discharge), but reload time is noticeably longer. Weaker armor does not allow Oblivion to rush over enemy positions like Kirov airships. And somewhat slow moving speed does not allow it to transport units as fast as Twinblade or Century bomber.

In order to protect Oblivion Warships from enemy anti-air units and compensate slow attack speed, the best solution would be the Rocket Angels.

Kamikaze squadron
The main advantage of kamikaze squadrons over Allied drone swarms is tougher armor that allows them to pass where drones can't.

Machineguns allow kamikaze planes to deal additional damage to enemy before sacrifising themselfes. This is most noticeable in terms of killing enemy infantry. Kamikaze planes often take one-two infantry units on their runway before perish.

Heroic level provides Oblivion warship with 10 kamikaze planes.

Bomb loads
The most destructive weapon in Oblivion's armory is it's bomb loads. Three bomb loads combined deal even more damage per second than Kirov airship's bombs. On the other hand, it takes enormous amount of time to reload it. Even worse, Oblivion warships tend to lauch their bombs in large numbers, which causes spending half of their armament on weak targets and great damage excess.

Deployment history
Deployment history

Assessment
Pros Cons
 * Carries tons of extremely destructive bombs on a board
 * Three bomb loads combined deal more DPS than Kirov airship's bombs
 * Kamikaze planes have very long attack range
 * Kamikaze planes tend to attack every enemy on a runway
 * Heavy armor
 * Not limited to the number of empty slots on an Airfield
 * Never needs to rearm
 * Carries up to five infantry units or one vehicle on a board
 * Moves noticeably faster than Kirov Airship
 * Cheaper than Harbinger Gunship and Giga-Fortress
 * Greater firepower on still targets than Harbringer Gunship
 * Automatically drops bombs on enemy units.
 * When shot down, Oblivion damages everything under it with it's body
 * Expensive (3200$)
 * Requires Tier 3 to build
 * Both attacks have long reloading time
 * Kamikaze planes deal less damage than bombs
 * Pricier than Kirov Airship
 * Still has weaker armor than Kirov
 * Nanocore is vulnerable to enemy attacks
 * Vulnerable to everything AA, especially fighter jets
 * Vulnerable to Yuriko Omega
 * Causes damage to friendly units close to enemy units with bombs or when crashing
 * Inaccurate against fast moving ground targets like Hydrofoils and Multigunner IFVs

Notes from the field
Notes from the field

Quotes
Selected Order to move Order to attack
 * Living God amongst mere mortals
 * Fear the judgement of the Oblivion warship
 * They will be reduced to cinders

Trivia
Trivia

Gallery
Gallery