Alien Fast-Attack Ship (Apocalypse)

This craft is well armored, highly maneuverable and armed with a powerful beam weapon. It is designed to protect other more vulnerable Alien ships. Avoid these craft if the threat to our vehicles is too great and concentrate on shooting down the Alien Transports.  From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

Alien Fast Attack Ship

Size: medium
Top Speed: 20
Acceleration: 5
Weapon Slots: 1
Weapons: Medium Disruptor Beam
Constitution (Disabled): 500 (150)
Armour¹: 10/5/10/10/10/12
Modules: Small Disruption Shield
Chassis Weight: 4000
First Appearance: Week 2
Score: 200

¹ Armour values are for: Top/Front/Left/Right/Rear|Under

Alien Fast Attack Ships (UFO Type 4) are used often for combat support and escort of other UFOs. This UFO will escort any craft which has a role of infiltration but will not partake in the infiltration. Other roles for the Fast Attack Ship include Bomb Buildings and Alien Search.

Cityscape Combat
This UFO has the latest type of beam weapon, the Medium Disruptor Beam, which is a potent threat to X-Com craft. The fast attack ship is so called because it is the quickest UFO available. It uses this fast speed to easily avoid missiles and other slower projectiles which diminishes the effectiveness of all missiles and small cannons (eg: 40mm, 52mm) however, its speed advantage is reduced when nearby its escort target which it then becomes easier to disable or destroy. If there are no UFOs needing escort duty, the UFO once again becomes an agile and evasive target which will quickly escape into the dimension gates. To effectively engage this UFO, attack any Fast Attack Ships first and only after they are near their target UFO, once disabled, attack the vunerable infiltrator UFOs. If research of this UFO is known, it can be ignored since it does need to be destroyed (it does not do infiltration missions) unless it is a target of opportunity or needing more alien craft weapons.

Crash Recovery

The crash-recovery battlescape shows the brown UFO has impacted the ground against some hilll on the northwest and slid leaving a long and very wide trench behind.
Access into the UFO is via a small door on the south side, within the wide tranch.

Battlescape Combat
The crash recovery battlescape is seven levels high.
WIP

Research
A succesfully recovered Fast Attack Ship will provide weapons, devices, and sub-systems for further research or to sell.

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X-COM: Apocalypse: Vehicles
Airborne	Hoverbike Phoenix Hovercar Valkyrie Interceptor Hawk Air Warrior Police Hovercar Air Taxi Rescue Transport Construction Vehicle Airtrans Space Liner
Ground	Blazer Turbo Bike Stormdog Wolfhound APC Griffon AFV Civilian Car Police Car Autotaxi Autotrans
X-Com	Dimension Probe Bio-Trans Explorer Retaliator Annihilator
Alien	UFO Type 1 - Probe UFO Type 2 - Scout Ship UFO Type 3 - Transporter UFO Type 4 - Fast Attack Ship UFO Type 5 - Destroyer UFO Type 6 - Assault Ship UFO Type 7 - Bomber UFO Type 8 - Escort Ship UFO Type 9 - Battleship UFO Type 10 - Mothership • Overspawn

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