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The SBT-1 is the strongest, heaviest, deadliest tank ever concieved by Sigman minds. Designed to take massive and deal massive amounts of punishment, the Fenris has proven in all test runs to be a force to reckon with.

In Norse mythology, Fenris was the son of Loki and Angrboda. He was a wolf that grew to be so massive and strong, that the gods had no choice but to imprison him in the depths of the earth using a magical chain. When the time was right, Fenris would break out of his prison and usher in Ragnarok, the end of the earth.

The Fenris, much like it's namesake, is a thing of great devastation and suffering. Designed to destroy any land target, such as enemy armor and buildings, the Fenris is fully capable of leveling a city if it has support and resupply.

The Fenris is powered by hydrogen fuel, which is used in the state-of-the-art HAGT-3500 High Power Turbine Engine, built specifically for use in the Fenris. This engine provides enough power to push the Fenris' massive 110 tons across flat, even terrain at a surprising 45 miles per hour. Special care was taken into creating the parts needed for the eight sets of tracks used by the Fenris, allowing for highly effective transfer of kinetic energy from the powertrain into the track drives. The Fenris is fully capable of running with only four of it's tracks disabled, although it's overall speed and maneuverability will be lagged.

The greatest strength of the Fenris is it's armor. Using titanium armor as an under layer, it's outer layer is composed of steel encased depleted uranium and reactive plating, to ward off anti-armor munitions. The crew compartment and all vital systems are heavily armored. The engine and fuel tank are especially heavily protected, due to the presence of the hydrogen.

The armaments of the Fenris are designed specifically for ground engagements. The primary weapon, a fixed 240mm cannon, can decimate most modern tanks with a well placed shot, especially if using specialized ammunition, such as DU or HEAT rounds.

The secondary weapon of the Fenris is the top mounted rocket launcher. This launcher fires HR2B-S Heavy Rockets, rockets designed to take out buildings. They penetrate into the building and deploy, throwing dozens of explosives in a radius around the rocket, destroying almost anything within a 200 meter radius. In multilevel buildings, this has a high chance of collapsing the entire building. Only four of these rockets are carried on the Fenris, two in the launch tubes and two as reserve. These rockets only deploy when a special code is sent from the crew compartment when the rocket reaches a certain point. The rocket will not detonate if it is within 50 meters of the Fenris, decreasing the chance of an in tube detonation to roughly 0.001%

The next weapon in the Fenris is one that is of a unique design. The Vetrical Suppression Launch System, nicknamed the "Apocolypse Hydra" by members of the original developement, is used to "suppress" enemy infantry in two ways. There are four launchers on the Fenris, each with three launch canisters. Two of the launchers fire canisters that behave very much like a cluster bomb. Once the canister reaches the air above it's target, it detonates, dropping it's payload on targets below. In each container is housed thirty FireFrag impact explosives. These, when they hit, detonate with shrapnel and napalm. These canisters are reserved for infantry hiding in heavy cover, such as a forest. They are also used if the burning of large areas is necessary. With the six mounted on the Fenris, an entire city could be burned to the ground.

The second canister type houses one hunder sharpened steel poles. When the canister detonates, these head at the ground, penetrating lighter armor on the tops of vehicles, roofs of buildings, enemy soldiers, etc. These do not have the after effects of their brother canisters, but the psychological effect on a soldier after seeing his friends impaled on metal poles that fall seemingly from nowhere is quite effective. Few things in the Sigman armory can destroy morale such as these canisters.

Finally, the Fenris has twin .70 Automated Minigun turrets, almost directly taken from those on the Death Adder tank. These turrets provide overlapping protection in a 180 degree angle directly in front of the tank. The only place that these cannot aim is behind the tank.

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As for the subject of price, the Fenris will be for sale at a later time. (OOC: So feel free to tag if you're interested.)


OOC: Remember, this is only the unveiling, and most of the specifications of the tank are absent. They will come later. Don't ask for them.

ooc: drives tank off road, tank sinks. 1 infantryman runs round behind it and knocks it out with a few RPG rounds. end of uber-expensive tank.

OOC: If anyone was stupid enough to drive it into a wet landscape without support, yes.

I may use it. It looks like something that could be used.
(I do not use many tanks in my army)

dude, that thing would have to have either no armour or somuch that it would sink in a road to be plausible and not use a godmod technology (unless this is FT, in which case antigravity would make tracks pointless)

OOC: Fine, if you're so transfixed on it's weight, I'll cut it down a bit. Just keep in mind that it is MT-PMT, and that my nation has signifigantly better tech than the US, which people so often use to base their beliefs on. None of this is godmod. That's just not something I do.

OOC: i base my tech on the UK BTW.
oh, and i just have a problem with uber-tanks/carriers/battleships etc etc etc.
but seriously, what i said about weight is true, the germans tried for an uber-tank in WW2 and theirs sank for real (in the road too).

(OOC: For the weight, I just doubled the weight of an M1A1, but that is a bit much. Also, this tanks makes contact with the ground in more places than a normal tank, spreading the weight across a wider area. If it ran on two tracks, it would sink, but this one has eight. There is an outer set and an inner set, and two of each set on both sides of the tank.

yeah but they cover less as a proportion than two big ones, one down each side would... 8 are better for survival, but to cover enough ground you would need one big one covering all of the ground under the tank pretty much. not completely sure but with enough armour to protect that thing, it must weigh a monster amount.

[OOC: Sorry if you'd rather not have more OOC-talk in this thread, I'll get rid of it if you like, but since Pyeki is highly unlikely to notice this foreign development there's little prospect of my commenting IC. If the Pyekan were to consider the new weapon, their assessment would be that it posed minimal to zero threat to them, even if war were to be joined between Pyeki and Sigma Octavus.
The Pyekan would feel that the Fenris is unsuited to operation in Pyeki, the terrain of which can be defined in a few basic terms: jungle and rainforest, highland and mountain, river and floodplain, and paddyfields. However, the size and complexity of the SBT-1, which would presumably remain in Sigma Octavus throughout such a conflict (or else be lost at a phenomenal rate in Pyeki), would represent a drain on war resources equivalent to a fairly successful sabotage campaign.
Even if deployed, it would probably be estimated that the tactical limitations and the sheer scale and complexity of the machine themselves represent a pointless handicap in action, manoeuvre, and support.
However, I hasten to add that I am not trying to call the SBT-1 a Godmod or whatever else, and that this is meant as a representation of how Pyeki would react to its introduction if it mattered to the nation! They may not even be right about it, but there you have my contribution none the less.]

The Fenris is primarily designed for urban warfare. Hence the constant reference to city destruction and the rockets designed to take out buildings. On a paved road, the Fenris would leave definite indentations, but would not sink. Yes, it is completely impractical to use it in a forest or something. It is designed to be a spearhead vehicle, leading the way into an enemy city with armor, infantry and support coming in behind it.

With that out of the way, the OOC talk on this thing sinking in so-or-so terrain should cut down. Like I said, this is an unveiling, didn't say it was of the prototype though. Everything I make goes through this beginning cycle of criticism and small changes. I have gone so far as too completely redesign weapons because of this, but since the only criticism currently is on it's weight and usability in uneven terrain, I'll make only very minor changes for the release.

okay, but how does it get from one city to another. if anyone sees it comig they mine the road and it cant go around it.

Its a powerful tank, albeit massive and cumbersome. I can see it trotting around in a parade for showing off or being part of an elite tank unit but wide-scale use would be limited somewhat, exploting a weak front or something like that.

[OOC: Hm. Something that wide and with a fixed primary gun seems less than ideally suited to that role, as well, unless I am much mistaken.
Not wanting to accidentally reference such phrases as white elephant, I can see this as a modern-day Ferdinand Elefant tank, which ended up blocking Italian streets against Allied advances and blasting away on a fixed line of fire until bombed by a plane or eventually outflanked by infantry. Effective but cripplingly inefficient.]

In a hypothetical question such as the land mines, I'd have to point at the sensor package I've got in this thing, of which is not mentioned in the unveiling. There are a bunch of ways to see a landmine, and to deal with them. For example, just shell the shit out of the entrance of the city. Not in my general tactics to preserve cities in war.

so technically a mobile gun not a tank then?

It's still got turret weapons. I could change the cannon to have limited mobility for the release. It is not supposed to fill the role of an MBT, so it lacks some of the MBT features.

It's still got turret weapons. I could change the cannon to have limited mobility for the release. It is not supposed to fill the role of an MBT, so it lacks some of the MBT features.

OOC: I use a Light Tank Chassis with 50 mm autocannons to tear down cities and forests, or I bring in the 175mm Mobile Gun Systems. I also use the 240mm MRLS to take down thigns like this. This actually sounds terrific for urban pacification and to terrify the population. They don't understand super-tank = super target for aircraft. ANd they usually can't get beyond a Cesena that'll be shot down in half a second. I'm interested though for the reloading for the rocket system, and pretty much everything else. Would I need another vehicle following it due to low ammo capacity?

[OOC: Its all good, its not all that different besides the main gun (and secondaries) of the concept of the American T-28 supertank which in so far as I know hasnt sunk into the ground yet, and its been moved for serviceing many times over the years...

Image is spot on sexy, nice curves good distribution of detail and what not, I only wish it was in color ^_^]

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I believe I am interested, especially since I need a new tank.

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Since most of the stuff I make is single-purpose, you might want to check here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=445770) for other vehicles