** The Federation Dreadnought Cruiser, aka the "Galaxy-X" or the refitted USS ''Enterprise''-D from "All Good Things," the last episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. It looks impressive, has a cloaking device and massive phaser cannon built in, and is the only cruiser that can mount Dual and Dual Heavy Cannons as standard armament... but it turns like the Tier 4 cruiser, making it almost impossible to hold those cannons on target long enough for them to count.
*** This is actually a problem for any cannon-toting ship that has a wide turning circle, like the larger Klingon cruisers. The [[MightyGlacier Bortasqu']] has an elegantly simple solution, though - its Subspace Snare console ''teleports the enemy in front of its main guns''.
*** The Galaxy X is more of DifficultButAwesome if used right, which means "cloak and sneak up to some schmuck, then unload everything on him and watch him rage as his ship promptly stops existing"... That is, provided they don't detect your vessel inching along at a snail's pace first and attack, or run away first in the time it takes for your weapon's power to return up from zero when you decloak.
*** The Gal-X has actually gotten better now that there are Subspace Jump Console available for it, which will jump it directly behind its enemy... [[OhCrap right in firing range of its Cannons and Spinal Lance.]]
** "Boarding Party" a lower level Bridge officer space ability sends, you guessed it, a boarding party onto the target ship. However they don't do much and tend to get killed quite easily (even though your ship sends three shuttles at once) and beyond that the logic makes it even worse. What if you lose all three shuttle craft? About 30 crew members are "dead" yet you can do the whole thing again in about 90 seconds...

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* DifficultButAwesome: The handful of larger ships that can mount cannons, like smaller and faster-turning escorts. Trying to keep cannons on a target with a cruiser's turn rate would be completely impractical, and requires unorthodox tactics:
** The Galaxy-X dreadnaught has a cloaking device; a skilled player can use this to sneak up on an unsuspecting ship, de-cloak as close as possible and unload on the target before it has a chance to move out of range. The ship's unique phaser spinal lance does huge damage in a single shot, and fires twice when triggered; it's more than enough to ensure the first volley is fatal against another player ship in [=PvP=] if weapons are fired in the right order, fast enough so the target can't pop any defensive buffs. When the ship is already in combat and can't cloak right away, Tractor and Repulser beams can be used to keep the target in front and a Subspace Jump Console can be used to teleport the Galaxy-X directly behind a target, facing it.
** The Klingon Bort'asqu comes with a Subspace Snare Console that takes a different approach than the Subspace Jump Console; it teleports the ''target'' in front of the ship.

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