Battlestar Galactica: Janus Class Heavy Cruiser - Deadlock Proving Grounds - Spacedock 

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Older vessels: "we can't get hacked if we don't have any advanced technology!" What a beautiful ship though. For anyone wondering, the music used was the 'Colonial Theme' (personally, I think it should be called 'pride of the colonies' but whatever).

After reading the quote at the start I can't get the image of a captain saying "Screw it, nuke the bastards, I'm getting sick of this," out of my head. I'm not the only one, surely?

For context: the Janus is three times longer than a real life Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Given this ship’s fearsome armament, that’s a terrifying thought.

Turn decks 90 degrees and get MCRN Donnager.

I love the design of this ship, I dunno why but it reminds me of the donnager from the expanse, and it’s pretty bsg in design too

Man, imagine if the Colonials had a few of these in the show. Cylons couldn't touch 'em then.

That opening quote though... ‘Well...I’m bored. Chuck a nuke out there so we can go home.’

One of my favorite Battlestar support ships. I've dropped rangers out of my fleets in favor of this ship often.

Someone said this in the comments on another video: The ultimate "have nukes, will travel" escorts for the Daidalos shipyard. Can carry 3 nukes, and since it is in the fleet for Daidalos, zero replenishment cost. Since I typically have two cruisers in a fleet, that's six nukes right there - which cost nothing to restock afterwards. That is a *stupid* amount of firepower - and I love it. Don't screw with our shipyard/command center.

Love it every time you say, “in the first Cylon war...”

I'm assuming that this ship is even older than the Artemis. Yet somehow it looks "Newer" I always had the impression that the Artemis was the oldest Available Battlestar in the Fleet. This Janus class does somewhat resemble the Ranger class from the Fan-Site that introduced the Defender class Battlestar.

You know, it'd be very interesting to see a series based around the unification war and/or the first Cylon war... #NetflixPlease

Every time you say First Cylon War you make me think of a Mod for Star Wars: Empire At War: Forces of Corruption. The mod is called "Battlestar Galactica: War of the Colonies". The mod's creators made up a storyline of what if Caprica Six had defected to the Colonies before the Attack that is seen in the Miniseries, and warns them and even helps them defend against the Comprimised CNP program, thus forcing a traditional war.

I wish that they had one of those in the BSG Series in the Refugee Fleet

We need a series set around the 1st cyclon war with ships like this. Whats better than one Battlestar in action? A whole bunch of em along with cruisers, destroyers and corvettes going toe to toe with the bucketheads.

Exposed pipe, terribly cramped crew quarters, and poor temperature control. So, it would be similar to being stationed on a Nimitz-class carrier.

Found time for a study beak to watch this, loved it

Alright, after viewing a bunch of these BSG Deadlock vids, I'm officially adding the game to my wishlist.

The Yanus Class Heavy Cruiser is an awesome Colonial Ship !

The design reminds of the MCRN Donnager.

Love this one playing campaign. Oh you wanted missiles? I got ya missiles right here.

I wish we could get this music during fights. I love that you can hear bits of the BSG TOS theme in it.

I need to play this. The game and your videos are outstanding.

Kick Ass Episode SpaceDock !

She's a very colonial design: brute force and inelegant, yet highly effective. Redundant components and durability make up for the lack of sophistication.

Another fantastic episode! Please keep them coming!

Theres something older and more stoic to her. In the age of battlestars, of valient and dareing pilots and Courageous Carrier groups. There, in the background, skulking in the flanks, is the Janus, ready to remind the Toasters why Humans are better at void combat... Because the Janus? Shes a 3 mile long, nuclear armed ballistic sledehammer.

The Janus looking almost like the Donager-class makes me want to see a Versus between said Donager-class and a Battlestar.

Outro music is Skirmish 3

This is just the kind of ship I love, a Broadside for broadside brusier

Space Above and Beyond Hammerhead Star Fighter Would be great to see. It has a really cool look

I bet a group of these bad boys and a few minotuars and maybe a few rangers and a Battlestar can do alot of damage

The Jupiter Battlestar really was a step "Backward" and was clearly intended to be a Hybrid of the Artemis and the Janus. The Artemis is more "Advanced" Than the Jupiter in terms of Technology (But the Artemis is generally weaker and has inferior Armament. And any technological advantage was lost when Networked technology was abandoned making the Jupiter ultimately superior) The Mercury class would bring back several elements of the Artemis design not only in structure but in its computer technology as well.

I love me an oldie but goody.

I love these. Stick 6 of them to deidalus and have 18 nukes which you get for free. Use those 2 Viper squadrons from deidalus to get IFF Marks and then nuke them from orbit. 😈

Any plans for Adamant class frigate rundown? - in the game this vessel proved to be universal, cost-effective and way more usefull then most of the battlestars including Artemis and Jupiter class.

They ever explain how big the colonies territory was? I always thought it was just a single system but now I’m wondering...

Just asking could you maybe a few videos on the Vong and there tech or maybe more with the Chiss

It really looks like a Halo Thanatos class destroyer

Any chance of that extended episode on the Lantian Atlantis class class city ships that you mentioned in the comments way back on the City ship episode? Would be awesome to get the full scope of the ship/city.

May not have been as quick or maneuverable as the Ranger, but I used it extensively in the final missions of Deadlock. 1 Jupiter, 2 Minervas, and 2 Janus backed up by Daedalus. Equip all of the Janus's missile slots with Nukes and destroy capital ships quickly after using the Jupiter's Raptor as a recon platform. Would assign the Daedalos fighter wings as defensive escorts. In the final mission, my Janus' annihilated the majority of Cylon base ships allowing for my Battlestars to move into gun range and annihilate Avalon.

Just imagine how much better humanity would have done if they'd had a museum fleet with Galactica composed of mothballed ships from the first Cylon War

The top down looks better than the side view.

I don't have Deadlock, so perhaps this is a mistake on their part, but it's not "Yanus". It's clearly based on the two-faced god of doorways, beginnings and endings in the Greek pantheon, and in english at least, his name is pronounced "Janus", hard J.

Its kind of weird, but the Janus actually has a kind of anemic gun complement compared to most ships. Its one optimal angle where all guns can fire is to the lower front, there its 2 heavy guns and 3 medium guns. For reference, a Berzerker gets 5 medium guns on each broadside while being much lighter and smaller, and almost a pure carrier. The Ranger for example, the other "missile boat" is also much smaller and lighter, even gets better missile slots (2 instead of 3, but they reload faster so overall DPS is higher), yet its almost covered in guns. 2 heavy turrets on the front, then 4 mediums each side and two more mediums on the underside. And dont get me started on actual gunships or Battlestars. Janus is really just a durable as fuck brick with lots of missiles.

Remind me of the halberd class destroyer

Still wish they had used more pre-existing (Blood and Chrome) Ships for this game.

Sounds much like the Defiant class of Star trek.

more shout outs for the Shivan Lucifer from free space!

Twin torpedos and ECMs only please. Maximum power to weapons and say goodbye to Revenants, Arachnes, Talons and you’ll beat the stuffing out of basestars with a twin Janus alpha-strike.

Every Great Leap Forward needs running jump.

I want a Grażyna to this Janusz!

The prow swivel guns need to be offset so when they fire port and starboard one isn't blocked by the other.

I love the new Battlestar Galactica Ship but your should Loki Type Heavy cruiser and Defender type or Catamaran type Escorts cruiser

i've used these a few times in lieu of ranger missle cruisers... on 3 consecutive missions/ambush bouts I noticed a pattern by the cylons...several salvos of missles via nemesis/phobos shot simultaneous at my janus! had to 'borrow' a viper squadron to defend my janus since it was the slowest and least manueverable ship in that fleet; that same pattern is now played out against my manticores...frakkin annoying!

Can we see the adamant class next please?

Have you ever considered any of the ships that have appeared in the Transformers franchise? I'm sure there's not quite as much to go on since the series doesn't focus on the ships, but are there any that have caught your eye at least? Also, great video as usual. I never fully watched the BG series but this was still pretty cool to know.

Why aren't there any Battlestar Galactica space Sims? Who wouldn't want to play as a hero Viper pilot, or Janus captain??

How does this vessel compare to a Minotaur? Is there a site that shows the comparative values of all these vessels?

Having no auxiliary craft seems like quite the oversight. How you going to land those marines or exchange personnel with another craft?

Please do a video the Battlestar Pegasus

can you do a review of the the glorious heritage class heavy cruser from gene rodenberry's brilliant Andromeda Acendent

The twelve colonies of kobol the only people who consider yeeting metal in excessive amounts as a military strategy

Hey, I was wondering if you could cover any ship from the Starcraft franchise

Yo this battlestar galactica stuff is so freaking awesome, thank u so much for doing these shows I really appreciate it 🙂

Would you be able to do a video on the Zakuul Dropship from swtor please

Hey what about Ranger class cruiser

Love the music featured in these episodes! Does anyone happen to know where one can watch the battlestar galactica shows? It's one of the cult classics ive yet to watch.

Hey spacedock could you talk about poor design choice of republic capital ships in swtor.

Are you kidding? Just put some highly skilled computer system passers and a few AA guns on those and they can stand defiantly longer they should like flying middle fingers in space.

i just wish we could have access to all those other ships on bsg deadlock, sad :('

I hate it when sci fi shows/games/books call ships heavy cruisers. There is really no such thing. "Heavy cruisers" were a figment of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which imposed limits on ship tonnage in the fleets of signatory navies. The Royal Navy needed a whole bunch of commerce protection cruisers for their empire while the US and Japan wanted fewer but more heavily armed cruisers. Britain did not want their fleet made obsolete by these larger and better armed potential adversaries. To settle the issue, a distinction was made between the 8" gun armed cruisers and 6" and smaller gunned types. Thus "heavy" and "light," The whole thing really only played out in the interwar period and the categories really ceased to have any meaning. Thus it is silly for sci-fi franchises to draw on this outmoded term. Guess it sounds cool.

I like the vid. Unfortunate, now that I've use the ship in the game, I don't like it much at all. My main tactic while playing BSG Deadlock is to form a wall of battle. Namely stacking ships vertically and horizontally. This takes advantage of battlestar's ability to defend them selves (and ships behind them) from incoming ordinance and pump out staggering amounts of fire. While other ships support 'ships of the wall' with missile barrages, additional fighters, etc. The Janus, can't do this. The ordinance is fine, but it has a slower firing rate compared to the Ranger CG. Also the Janus is slow, with limited firing arcs. Now the video did give me the idea of using the Janus as a mine layer, which I think I'll try (dropping a wall of EMP or proximity mines along the Cylon line of advance). But you might be able to do that with supporting Adamants. Mines are an interesting add on to the game that I have used in the early game. Not so much later as the flight deck space is available to have a Raptor flight buzzing around disarming them.

First after spacedock

Whats a good way to watch battlestar galatica

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Could you do Some strategy videos on this game? I just picked it up on the holiday sale and im gitting my ass kicked by the toasters.

The colonials had some very impressive ships during this time.

I don't think he's pronouncing "Janus" correctly. It should be: Jan (as in January) - us (as in anus)

It's named after the god Janus, so should be pronounced Janus not Yannus

Exposed pipeworks, cramped crew quarters, and poor environmental controls? So just like a modern warship then

Definitely my favourite colonial vessel...sorry Battlestars. Something about her being a tough old girl.

Janus is too slow, and is sorely lacking in guns. 3 missile tubes are nice, but I'd prefer a variant with more guns...especially on top. I tend not to use them in my Deadlock battles. As far as looks go I think it's one of the coolest non battlestar designs.

It's Portuguese, the J is silent.

I wish they would purge the actual TV show from canon. Just declare that it never happened. Any of it. Ever. And then made a new show that doesn't have such a fucking retarded ending, and that actually has likable characters. I really like the technology of this setting and the way the battles were animated, but the characters and overall story were grating and awful. Everyone was stupid assholes. And the "plan" was made up as they went along. Fucking dreadful.

having tried out the DLC, I'm disappointed with the Janus. If the munitions cooldowns could be reduced by just one turn, it'd be a fair upgrade from the Ranger for controlled missile/torpedo attacks. I've found it to be most effective in a support role, supplying PCMs or mines, and I'll leave the heavy torpedo bombardments to the Rangers. Its guns will usually take care of smaller corvettes and cruisers that slip by my main line. I do at least think the Janus is significantly more useful than the Atlas. the Janus is slow, but it will at least make it to the fight before it's over