Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock/Colonial Ships

Manticore Class
Overview: The Manticore Class is a swift corvette, with a strong emphasis on speed and its DRADIS range. This makes it the most effective Colonial scout ship. As guided weapons like missiles cannot be fired until targets have been identified, this makes the Manticore pair well with missile-oriented ships.

Compared to the Cylon Nemesis, the Manticore easily outguns its Cylon counterpart. The Nemesis, however, is far superior at scouting, and has the ability to shut down enemy subsystems with its hacking.

Weapons: The Manticore is equipped with a forward-facing chin-mounted Corvette Cannon. While it only does a modest amount of damage and has low accuracy, it fires very quickly. It also has a pair of light cannons mounted on its back that face rearward, allowing it to continue attacking targets after pounding them with the bow cannon.

The forward cannon has some difficulty pointing upwards while the rear guns cannot attack targets below, so if the target is in front of you, keep it below; if the target is behind you, keep it above the Manticore.

With one munitions slot, Manticores can be used as nuclear missile platforms or as torpedo boats, using their speed to close to point blank range to ensure hits.