Vanguard

VIP Ship

This ship is a VIP ship and can only be obtained if you own the VIP Gamepass.

The Vanguard is a mid-size and speedy Battleship/Dreadnought-Carrier hybrid.

Description

The Vanguard is a very compact Carrier and the smallest in the game. It has low Turret and Fighter firepower and is commonly used as a support Carrier. The outside appears very armored, but it has rather low health for a Carrier-class ship.

This Carrier contains 3 Y.Falcons.

Interior

When you enter the ship through the right hangar, there will be a command room to the right. Inside the command room, there is a pilot seat and some control panels.

Advantages

• Smaller than some other Carriers, about the size of the average Dreadnought; if not a little smaller, but with decent speed, making it more difficult to hit.
• Powerful Spinals.
• Durable Fighters.
• Very fast Turn Speed for a carrier, as maneuverable as many of the more agile Battleships in the game.
• Fastest Carrier in the game, being faster than 1 Battlecruiser, and faster than a little over a third of the build menu Battleships in the game.
• Decent health for a ship of its size and speed, with a total of 11400 health.

Disadvantages

• Only has 3 Y.Falcons.
• Low Shield damage without using its Spinals.
• If other carriers are available, the use of this ship is impractical as only one Carrier is allowed per faction.
• Large blind-spot below the ship.
• Spinals can be hard to aim due to the large gap between the position of the two spinals.
• Requires the Galaxy VIP Gamepass to obtain.

Strategy

• A very powerful ship for killing Miners or Freighters with since you can deploy the Y.Falcons to distract the Starbase and destroy other ships while the base is distracted.
• Do not use the Vanguard in a siege unless no one else has a Carrier, as only one is allowed per faction.
• Use the Y.Falcons the way you would use a Viper while Sieging since they are tanky but have a weak armament.

Version History

• Received a price decrease in version .61g.
• Received a speed buff in version .62d2
• Received a remodel in version .65b.
• Health increased from 1800/1600 to 4000/3500 in version .68d.
• Removed from the build menu because of a broken model in version .71a1.
• Onsale again after version .72f
• Shields reduced from 4000 to 3600 and hull increased from 3500 to 4800 in version .72f1 (this buff was revealed in-game).
• Shields increased from 3600 to 6500, Top Speed reduced from 120 to 70, Acceleration increased from 15 to 35, Turn Speed reduced from 0.4 to 0.35, turret loadout changed from 3 Light Gatling Cannons, 1 Light Gatling Laser, 2 Medium Flak Cannons to 6 Triple Heavy Cannons, and 2 Dual Medium Lasers, Spinal loadout changed from 8 Medium Phasers and 6 Medium Cannons to 4 Medium spinals for phasers and cannons respectively, fighters changed from 2 Falcons to 3 Y.Falcons, Cargo Hold increased from 70 to 250, and remodeled in version .74b14.
• Fighters changed from 3 Y.Falcons to 3 Falcons

Trivia

• The smallest Carrier in Galaxy(disputed, the ship has undergone a remodel and now has a similar size factor to the Stormbringer's current model).
• It's the only VIP Gamepass Carrier.
• The only Carrier in the game that spawns Falcons.
• The Sakala uses the same description as the Vanguard.
• The model is currently broken, so that the fighters spawn too high and are hard to enter. The model was fixed in a recent update when the Vanguard was re-released into the game.

Old Vanguard Model