The Fearless class of Assault Ship is capable of carrying a full Royal Marine battalion plus supporting vehicles, including a company of tanks, through jumpspace into orbit ready for insertion. This task is accomplished by atmosphere-capable craft including the Heracles shuttle and Athena VTOL/dropship. The 750-foot long Fearless has considerable offensive and defensive weaponry including a heavy railgun turret, anti-fighter defences and a battery of orbit-to-surface Kinetic Energy bombardment missiles.
The Heracles shuttle is large enough to carry two tanks or APCs plus their infantry, or as many as two platoons of infantry on foot. The Heracles is fully equipped for orbital or atmosphere operations, and is also used to recover Athena dropships after operations.
The Athena is a drop-capable craft which can be deployed from orbit and then can be used as a conventional VTOL once in the atmosphere. It is capable of carrying two sections of fully-equipped infantry (16 men), a light vehicle or a towed gun. One downside of the Athena’s design is that it lacks the necessary engine power to reach escape velocity, except on low gravity worlds, and has to be shuttled back to orbit by larger vessels.
SFS-171 – Fearless class Assault Ship – £7.50
SFS-172 – Heracles class Assault Shuttle (x3) – £1.25
SFS-173 – Athena class VTOL (x6) – £1.00
5 thoughts on “New From Brigade Models”
18/08/2017 at 22:44
Cool bananas. The British Navy has been getting some awesome (re)releases lately. Might have to go balls to the wall and grab the lot… Just don’t tell the Minister for Home Affairs!
19/08/2017 at 10:28
Very cool! It’d be nice if these shuttles ‘grew’ into the 6mm ranges too!?!
19/08/2017 at 20:05
Totally seconding that… I didn’t knew it until a few minutes ago but my 6mm toy soldiers need “Heracles class Assault Shuttles” to ferry them around!
19/08/2017 at 22:38
Actually, on that point (peanut gallery above 😉 )… I would so be down for Heracles and an Athena in 6mm!
21/08/2017 at 15:13
…and I would love to see them in 15mm also!
Really cool! One of the things I really like about this is how the fluff is so well thought out. I mean, not everyone would have a dropship that can’t return to orbit!