- On the tank path below cliffs
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Europan Merkava Body Tank
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This page is about Europan Merkava Body Tank. For other uses, see Tank (disambiguation).
Description
Based on the real-world Merkava tank utilized by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the Corpse Tank is armed with an IMI 120 mm smoothbore gun and a remote-controlled M2 Browning .50 caliber heavy machine gun. To protect their tanks on the battlefield while simultaneously inflicting psychological damage, the Europans cover them with the naked corpses of civilians, earning the nickname Corpse Tank.
An alternative explanation behind Europa's insistence on using such macabre tactics, lore-wise, may be as an emergent solution to one of Eurasia's most sinister units - the MotherCourage. Rather than an attempt at up-armoring or crude psychological warfare, the deployment of corpses may be, in truth, a method of luring or distraction, presenting these mechanical colossi with what is essentially an irresistible bait, drawing aggression away from more vulnerable allies or into prepared ambushes. With the destruction of salvage units on either side of the conflict being no doubt assigned a high tactical priority, the apparent in-game proclivity of MotherCourages to target Corpse Tanks even above the player, and their shared presence on several battlefields, stakes itself as at least a plausible explanation, but nevertheless remains only speculation.
As an added benefit, as mentioned in Terror On Display by Slade, the bodies allow the tank to blend in with the massive piles of corpses ever present on the battlefields of Lost Angels City, filling a similar role as, for example, local foliage that is used by conventional military forces to enhance their camouflage.
Locations
- On the plains in the southwest
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- North of the valley, below city ruins
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Strategy
- The Corpse Tank can take an immense amount of punishment, bringing extra ammo and baiting it into enemies is advised.
- Tanks are passive unless provoked. Stay out of sight and utilize cover, especially if nearby allied units notice you.
- Tanks do not fire their main gun at the player and will instead resort to shooting them with their mounted MG.
- Tanks can be destroyed using any weapon due to a current lack of a working armor system. The most time and ammo efficient weapons are automatic shotguns (USAS-12,VEPR-12, AA12) and grenade launchers (grenade launcher, XM25, M79 Sawed-off).
- Similar to Exos, on death, all tank variants spawn one main loot container on their corpse and three additional containers that will be spread around the area they died.
- All four containers are denoted as "vehicle debris".
- Drills are required to open these containers as of update 0.2.
- The Corpse Tank Control Panel is located in the main loot container.
Quests
Trivia
- Tanks are secretly cats. This can be determined from two outstanding factors, being A: They are often found hidden in tight spaces, and B: They go flying at any minor inconvenience.
