Gladiator

Gladiators are fast projectile interceptors.

Properties
Gladiators are mobile Phalanx turrets, and a mounted Beam weapon allow it to attack other fighters.

Gladiator is the only fighter with a mounted turret.

Spectre, Gladiator, Engineer, and Knight cannot be produced by carriers.

Strategies

 * Gladiator is a strong fighter against ships with only projectile attacks, especially Minotaur and Fury.
 * Gladiators excel against most other fighters. However, Rapier and Cutlass are the only major counters on a fighter-on-fighter battle.
 * Gladiators can help Mediums and even Capitals survive if they get Range and Fire-Rate upgrades on them, because they will be able to destroy projectiles with negative effects, like Freeze, Acid, Force, Fusion, and EMP for Shielded ships.
 * With the right placement and range, it can even counter Apocalypse and Mjolnir.
 * Spectre and Gladiator is a good combo, especially when combined with Fighter Yard.
 * Gladiator with Shield A/B survive single laser hit. This modification can provide you edge in battles when oponent uses Rapiers or Gladiators.
 * Another useful modifications are Range and Rate of fire. Rate of fire/Heat sink/Beam doctrine make Gladiators phalanx shot every frame. Range increase effective radius and therefore protected area of phalanx as mentioned above. Range also help against other Rapiers, Gladiators and other fighters.
 * Other useful modifications can be Self-Destruct and Cloak. Self-Destruct helps Gladiator to deal 40 damage after it ends it support role. Cloak helps in fighter battles. In general Cloak is not that popular because main role of Gladiator is as support ship which uses phalanx so it is almost permanently unhidden.