A clearing house of designs and SSDs for new Full Thrust miniatures from Ground Zero Games

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Broken Stars & Burning Ships

These miniatures were painted by Impoverished Lackey Hobby Services and originally posted on his Broken Stars & Burning Ships blog which is no longer up.  With his permission, these ships and the background and stats he had done for Full Thrust are now available here for all the fleets from this blog.

AmRep, Cyprian Rift, EuroFed, ORCDef, and SAC.

A small ship with a very large sensor array, the Surveillante-class sensor picket serves as the eyes of the fleet but lacks offensive weaponry.  They are sometimes deployed with groups of fast strikeboats, where they can use their sophisticated electronics to track and identify key targets while remaining well beyond weapons range.

Like many older design EuroFed/NPSM designs, the Le Malin frigate is armed with short-ranged "Shark Hunter" cluster missile packs for her primary offensive punch.  The short range of these outdated weapons force the vessel into closing with the enemy, a risky proposition given her fragile hull and lack of defensive systems.

Another older design, the Surcouf class destroyers are widely regarded as something of a failure.  While reasonably fast, their light defenses and modest weapons fit limit both survivability and offensive punch.  They are, however, quickly and easyily built and inexpensive to operate, which has ensured a lengthy service life despite their perceived flaws.

A larger modern destroyer design that was first built during the Xeno War, the Insidioso class carries a full rack of heavy "Assassino" shipkiller missiles in addition to a strong medium-range beam array.  The range and hitting power of these weapons are a tremendous improvement over the earlier cluster missiles, although their greater sensor signature and slower flight speed does render them vulnerable to interception by point defense systems. 

Originally built in the same era as the similarly-armed Surcouf destroyers, the Valmy sports a expensive area defense array that was intended to protect her lighter squadronmates from missile and fighter attacks.  Her relatively short ranged weaponry has relegated the class to a primarily defensive role during the Xeno War, although her submunition packs have proven useful in discouraging point-blank Kra'Vak assaults.

Another Xeno War-era design, the Abruzzi is a powerful ship optimized for the hit-and-run tactics favored by EuroFed missile fleets.  Her defenses are unexceptional but she packs a hefty offensive wallop and her excellent thrust rating allows her to pick her fights against most enemies.

Largest of the Italian subfleet's battline ships, the Milano-class dreadnought is a deadly opponent with phenomenal engine performance, well able to outrun anything she can't outfight.  While she lacks the large magazines of the French capital ships, her single-salvo missile output is unmatched in the EuroFed/FSE fleet.

Built as a multirole combat ship, the massive Umberto battle carrier combines significant beam and missile weaponry with sufficient hanger capacity to provide fighter cover for a small fleet.  While expensive, their ability to overload all but the heaviest point defenses with combined fighter and missile strikes has made them a remarkably successful class to date.

Originally built as a tender and ferry for six-ship strikeboat squadrons, most Revanche-class hulls have been refitted into FTL transport tugs designed to allow rapid redeployment of system defense craft.  Fragile and poorly armed, these ships are valuable strategic assets that should be kept out of direct combat whenever possible.  Unfortunately, they often find themselves called on to risk themselves in recovery operations (a Revanche can haul a disabled battleship into FTL if need be) or in dropping their armed passenger ships into active battlezones.

Commonly found in system defense forces throughout EuroFed/FSE space, the Montcalm-class monitor is a destroyer-sized combat ship that sacrifices thrust and FTL capability for improved weaponry and durability.  They carry a variety of weapon loadouts from missile racks to capital-grade beam turrets.  They also mount an extensive PDS array tied to advanced fire controls, which make them popular convoy escorts, a role where their low thrust is at worst a minor drawback.