Paragon Battleship (Oligarch)

"A paragon of Altairian technology and weaponry, this battleship unleashes its true combat power when surrounded, by activating its Barrage Overdrive."

General
Like the Bastion Cruiser, the Oligarchs have their own variant of the Paragon Battleship. It retains its counter pierce capabilities as well as the Barrage Overdrive.

Strategy
Paragon Battleships utilized by the Oligarchs utilize different weaponry. Mk I and III Paragons are typically armed with Sai Missiles. Mk III Variants also use Piercing NET^2 Torpedoes occasionally as well. Mk V Versions utilize Shredder Cannons and sometimes, Piercing NET^2 Torpedoes also.

The weapons on this ship travel relatively slowly and can be dodged rather easily. Spread out your ships to avoid extra damage from the piercing effects.

If this ship has a minimum range, use cruisers or cutters to exploit it. Just make sure that none of your other ships or squadrons can be fired upon by the same ship.

Avoid surrounding this ship with your fleet. Otherwise, you risk activating its Barrage Overdrive, causing each explosion to regularly damage multiple of your ships. However, the Barrage Overdrive does not do much effect on the Mk V Variants, since the Shredder Cannons have no AoE, so it is possible to blitz Mk V NPC Paragon Battleships without taking extreme damage.

Paragon Battleships are directly countered by Cavalier Cutters, which possess a damage boost against battleships that increases as they are upgraded.

Squadrons are useless against Paragon Battleships equipped with Sai Missiles because they can destroy squadrons on top of the ship itself, unless there is nothing for the Paragon Battleship to fire at in the first place.

Trivia

 * Along with other T7A Oligarch ships before the Renascence Battlecruiser, this ship has received identical resistances to Nebula Fields as its Herald counterpart in the early April 2019 update. They used to have no damage resistances.