Gardener

""The Gardener is a long-range ship that shoots long-range poison artillery over the battlefield. Use it to get hits on your enemy’s Capital Ship, or against ships in hiding.""

- - Website Ship Description

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General
The Gardener is a Thorn Artillery ship, designed to fire and deal damage from afar, supporting ships from the back of the deployment.

Advantages
The Gardener can deal moderate damage to both ships, allowing it to strike first before the enemy can get the chance to attack your ships. It can also apply Poison DoT if its attack lands on a enemy ship, whittling their health down further.

The wide and lengthy firing arc can allow you to keep multiple ships within your firing arc, so that the ship can attack the next one once its current target perishes.

Disadvantages
The Gardener is lightly armored, and along with its massive dead zone, can perish pretty quickly if a fast moving ship can get close to it. It can also possibly be one shotted from Fleming's Active Power.

The Gardener has a lengthy cooldown for its firing cycle, which can leave it exposed when its not firing at anything.

The Gardener can only fire at player ships, contrary to its ship description.